Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life of his fellow human beings, either in domestic or international affairs, I have never seen the signs of it. His whole creed of complacent capitalistic individualism and of the right and duty of economic success commits him to the continuation of that hypocritical religion of 'prosperity' which is, in my judgment, the greatest force that exists at present in maintaining the unrealities of our social tone and temper...
Compassion and consideration should always be shown to those who are still religious. Personally I like to pretend that I have lost all contact with religion, and then sometimes I wonder...
...Republicans to think of Nominee Hoover's cry of warning against "State socialism" in his New York speech last fortnight? Was that a sincere cry against a genuine danger? Or was it the ecclesiasticism reaches, as everyone knows, from Maine to California, from Mississippi Baptists to Princeton theologues. Religion is an open, acrid issue in Tennessee and Alabama. It is a tacit factor in New Eng land...
...pessimistic: he analyzes the passivity of fun?listening to radio instead of doing amateur singing, fiddling), but the optimism is qualified with a recognition of arrant abuses, grave dangers. Thus, the Webbs on Labor, McBain on Law and Government, Winslow on Health, Dorsey on Race, James Harvey Robinson on Religion, Lewis Mumford...
...prove something-this time that a system of philosophy is bound to go on the rocks if it counts God out. There was no room for God in Hesketh's firm belief that some day man would live by Reason; there was no room for religion in the behaviorist upbringing he gave his carefree earthy children. But this omission does not necessarily account for the boy's morbid passion for his youthful stepmother (indeed every man in the book is in love with her); nor for the girl's wild-faun beauty which ruthlessly lures the stepmother...