Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Decidedly Wrong...
...know when he wants them to know it. Naturally, this sometimes conflicts in time and circumstance with professional curiosity and rivalries of some newspapermen. The incident culled by TIME from the Mercury was intended to illustrate a phase of this natural conflict. But, "do not trust" was decidedly the wrong phrase for the situation...
...Last Sunday the trivial little editorial was used as the text for a sermon. Perhaps is was only asking sanctuary, like the hero of Galsworthy's new play. At all events it received little. The gentleman of the clergy was strong in his denunciation. And he was not completely wrong...
...West who still are old-fashioned and superstitious enough to follow anything that smacks of religion are on the wrong road. We should turn rather from Christ to Abou Ben Adhem, who did not love God but rather his fellow men. For when our worship of Mammon has filled our purses to satiety we turn not to fighting the Devil, or Sin, or ourselves, but to social reform, to fighting tuberculosis or hookworm, or vice. The idea is presumably that if we try to patch up the botch Jehovah has made of keeping mankind in running order, Jehovah will repay...
...elsewhere he continues: "Our job is to change all that. Somehow or other, in the course of centuries we've got to slough off the philosophy which has led us down the wrong trail... War is an inevitable and comparatively insignificant incident resulting from our false hypothesis of conduct:" This is what the "conchy" brother and all the rest of his kind were saying before the fight began, and it is an opinion that the world in general is just beginning to sceptically examine. In a word it is the verdict against nationalism and its attendant evils of patriotism...