Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nationalization of coal mines and railways. The mining problem and the unemployment connected therewith, is vital to British politics...
...Modernists had best lay their differences entirely aside and join in repelling "the humanist movement, which makes God simply a name for the ethical idea evolved by mankind and attempts to draw its moral standards from a study of human behavior. . . . Both sides must recognize a serious menace to vital Christian faith in the humanist movement. The urgent task for Christian scholars is to state the conception of God in Christ convincingly and to help build a Christian Church which will embody his spirit...
...Lucas appointment as Commissioner of Internal Revenue. President Hoover reluctantly acquiesced. Good man though Kentucky's Lucas might prove to be, he did not, at face value, represent the big-bore, experienced businessman that had been prescribed by Treasury chiefs and first-class Senators to administer the vital tax-collecting branch of the Government...
...tradition. There will be no new social revolution if Ramsay MacDonald becomes Prime Minister again. The social revolution is already in full swing owing to income tax and death duties and the breaking up of the old landed estates. The Labor party ... are utterly unable to find any vital differences of philosophy or method between themselves and their opponents...
...course the subject of sex relations is one on which it is difficult to reason without overcoming strong and almost inborn prejudices. Nevertheless there is little to be gained in the long run by suppressing vital facts. Both Galileo and Darwin were bitterly reviled when they opposed traditional ideas with scientific discoveries. Yet their work is the basis of modern physics and biology...