Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...direst opponents of the McNary-Haugen Bill are opponents of all government-going-into-business schemes. The biggest farmer in the world is Thomas D. Campbell of Montana. As an important example he is vital to any farm discussion. He says, in effect, that the very idea of "a farmer" is obsolescent foolishness, that he ought to be put in a museum along with the dodo and the cobbler and the individual candlestick maker...
...occasion, indeed, for smug and shallow indifference. The omission of Cambridge is a telling criticism. A chastened humility and a pontent reformation are called for. The influence of such an advertisement on the college aspirations of prepratory school graduates need hardly be mentioned. The question is more vital even than that. It is one that endangers the high fame and eminence of Harvard University. There can be but one answer...
...significance in life which will make it seem worthwhile to him. Hence the catastrophe of self-destruction. The man whose mind has not been so highly developed may go through life with the vague feeling that he is missing something, but he rarely becomes so fully aware of this vital lack that he is tempted to suicide...
What cause has produced this vital, epochal change...
...existence, and as such a natural and beneficial part of the law of life. The theologian must interpret it in different terms, no less valid. It is an integral problem of modern life, and those who seek its solution in terms of death are at least hungering for a vital truth...