Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What religion could man worship to fill the aching heart that all the glory of the good material things of life had left empty? "There is no sure shield against the tyranny of this ruinous passion for possession," said Britain's gentle, eloquent, 77-year-old teacher W. Macniele Dixon, "save a transference of our affections from possession to admiration, from immoderate craving for wealth and power to an intense longing for beauty and excellence...
...everything." Man, animals, the heavens were set in fixed categories, hardly ever questioned. In this "order" man was seen as below the angels but above the beasts. Kings were divinely appointed; they might be assassinated, but no one suggested that kingship itself should be abolished. Man was made to worship God, but all else was made to serve man, and would do so as long as man did not give way to his passions and, by becoming a beast, disrupt the universal scheme...
...Eastern planning: a couple of good sound lickings would melt Japanese "nerves of steel," pinprick Japan's bubble empire. The annihilation of Japan would be unnecessary. The power of the military party broken, a Japanese republic could educate the people away from long-established habits of Emperor worship and blind obedience to war lords...
...this war, but believe it or not, we're going to have to kill to achieve our victory. Then, and only then, will we be able to dedicate ourselves to the building of your kind of world, Reverend. Some people aren't even allowed freedom of worship, Reverend. That's one of the reasons why we're fighting and killing, sir . . . to keep our rights...
...Europe the institu-[tions America had already built before 1800 "will not wholly wear out for thousands of years." In England, as Minister, he said that American study of Europe had convinced America that she could no more go back to her institutions than she could take up the worship of Thor. "The experiment is made," he said with calm finality, "and has completely succeeded...