Word: soul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...above all, the minister puts in the leverage at the most effective point. It is his business to mend men's souls and not their mere material bodies. He strikes at the root of a man's character; he gets not only under his skin but into his heart, and provides the force to make him a man. For example, take the case of a drunkard, who breaks a leg in one of his orgies. The doctor can set the leg; thus physically the man may be mended. But is his soul any better than it was before...
When asked to define religion, Bishop Lawrence said "Religion is a conscious binding together of the human soul and God with spiritual symbols...
...stratum of old-fashioned notions. His wife is also old-fashioned to the point of slightly addled brains. Son and daughter are of the newer scope, independent, impudent. They are constantly snooping about in quest of suppressed desires and easily fall under the spell of a fashionable, artificial poet-soul in spats. He preaches hypocrisy as the one great sin of a modern world where other sins have been abolished through epigrams...
Gandhi's "soul force", which appeared to be the secret of his extraordinary influence, might be described at the risk of seeming pedantic as "non violent coercion by methods of nonparticipation." Briefly, he wished to free India from foreign domination, and to bring this about he initiated his famous triple boycott, urging all his followers to ignore British courts keep their children out of British schools, and refuse to take pare in governmental assemblies. The immediate disruption of civil affairs which the continuance of this program brought about moved the local authorities to seize the Mahatma and confine...
Once their leader was incarcerated, however, the enthusiasm of his followers broke the bonds provided by the visual example of his personal restraint, and the original "soul force" degenerated into mob violence. Gandhi, in prison, was helpless, and watched with a breaking heart the falling ruins of his ideal, as the swaragists exceeded his carefully planned limits and began a campaign of civil disobedience which has apparently ended in at least temporary failure...