Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Relic worship is discouraged and the abolition of celibacy for the clergy* proposed...
...Greene is no blind worshipper of all things Greek. The balance and independence of the statement, "our color-sense had been more educated than that of the Greeks, though our sensitiveness to proportion is perhaps less acute" is a comfort in an age when all men either worship or else utterly contemn all things Greek. And it is a real joy to hear, in this hurried age, so safe and exposition of the doctrine of leisure...
...University takes its place by the side of the Church and the State as one of three fundamental institutions of modern civilization . . . The Church represents the organized faith of Christendom and its collective worship. The State represents the purpose of civilized man to live happily and helpfully together in organized society. The University represents man's inborn love of truth, his persistent curiosity, which has given rise to all science, and his dominating idealism which is the origin of all literature and of all philosophy...
...city, before the war had a population of about 9,000 and was a place of pilgrimmage to which a great many people came each year to worship. Now the town has depleted to half its former size. The reconstructed village is in contrast to the old, very modern with a civic center and markets, post office and official buildings in designated places with several playgrounds in reserved open spaces. The factory and residential sections have been kept in special separated sections of the city...
...Edmund Burke said that there were Three Estates in Parliament, but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sat a 'Fourth Estate' more important far than they all."? Heroes and Hero Worship (Carlyle...