Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Thus far, he said, the British fleet has protected America, but righteous citizens should not allow their peace and safety to be defended by a nation fighting for its life. The United States, on the country, should be anxious to help its mother country in its death struggle. France, as well, has aided us; has given us "the splendid light of its civilization. They all look to the United States, as a responsible nation, to do its duty...
...other motive for preparedness,--the desire to enforce our righteous will,--at first sight looks worthy. But it is not; first, because no nation's will, even when not mistaken nor wilfully misled, can ever guarantee itself as righteous; and, secondly, because rights and wrongs are not vertically but horizontally stratified, and national boundaries are no longer,--can never be again,--ethical lines of cleavage. Are we more nearly divine than the other nations, that we trust ourselves to do always the right thing? No, indeed; moreover, our national desire to back righteousness varies inversely as our military power...
Perhaps beer is the source of all the sins on earth; perhaps, on the other hand, it is the divinest of nectars. The CRIMSON is hardly self-righteous enough to arbitrate the question. Class dinners, it is true, have not been spotless, and perhaps are not yet so. But the morale of such functions is constantly improving, and there is no reason to fear that this year will mark a relapse into the orgies of a decade ago. The man so weak-kneed that he cannot refrain from undue excesses is more frowned on and less popular than he used...
...strange to speak on such a sordid theme as the care of property, let it be remembered that the social relations brought about by the new forms of property lie at the basis of most of the intricate problems of modern life, and that the straight path to a righteous solution of those problems lies in a sense of duty on the part of the possessor. It is the habit of the day to decry loudly the iniquity of others, to assume that in attacking them we perform our public duty; that by reforming them we fulfill the moral...
...these amazing days, when we no longer respond to the sight of a friend's name on a theatre program with that emotional thrill compounded of surprise and righteous satisfaction at successful prophecy,--so commonplace a thing it now is to behold some vanished Tom, Dick or Harry's fame glowing above the play-house door,--it may be pertinent to ask, where are the Harvard Poets? In the past we sought them in the pleasant pages of the Monthly, and found them there, Moody, Mackaye, Carpenter, and Hunt; today they are gone, and the bubbling Castalian spring of college...