Word: transcendentalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The public was quick to denounce the selfish, greedy Railway Brotherhoods who were willing to sacrifice the welfare of a nation to achieve their own petty aims. The press leaped to the attack; scalding front page Philippics placed the curse of God and the fourth estate on the heads of...
Unending afflictions qualified 36-year old Teppe as the prophet of "implacable pessimism." As a child he was constantly ill and morose. He lost the sight of an eye in his 20s in a way no doctor could explain. Since then he has been plagued by rheumatism, sciatica, asthma, stomach...
Transcendent military genius, scholar, historian, statesman, our much beloved Colonel has counseled our legislators, our executives, our admirals, our generals in a most wise and kindly manner. Always humble, modest and self-effacing, he has never boasted of his own great learning and accomplishments. Yet upon his guidance has rested...
"Let us be calm and be mature. We have made not a bad, but a good, beginning. That beginning has not created difficulties. It has merely revealed difficulties of long standing, which war has obscured. It is healthy that we now know the facts. Furthermore, we have at the beginning...
The fundamentals are deceptively simple: 1) that God is immanent and transcendent - the Whole of which all things, especially man, are a part; 2) that man's great potentiality and purpose to achieve a union with the Whole; 3) that man can achieve such union only by ruthlessly eliminating...