Word: evils
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...each of the two makes a good half but a poor whole. On the one hand excessive conservatism is a mere negation; on the other, excessive radicalism recklessly destroys the virtue of healthly discipline and blots out the good of the past with its bad. The one maintains established evil; the other destroys established good...
...Alexander into Macedonia, and from Macedonia it was carried by Paullus to Rome. Suddenly, violently, the whole mass accumulated unpper non-economic principles came under the control of economic law. The effect upon prices was enormous. It was characteristic of the Roman People that this effect was turned to evil...
...trace all concealed books to the responsible parties, the number of offenses could not but be diminished. Perhaps, though, it would be too much to hope that any one culprit could be convicted and made a discouraging example to such as might without it have continued in their evil ways...
...which it ought not to have outside its own power. For instance, there ought to be no system of private detectives, no private armies. The government should reserve the right of declaring war or of putting down armed resistance; riots, insurrections, and especially crime, which breed ill-will and evil, the state is perfectly justified in suppressing...
...Ambrose and, influenced by him, entered the clergy. On his return to Africa he was elected Bishop of Hippo. This office he held until his death. Influenced by a desire to get at the heart of things, he eventually took up the question of the source of evil and enriched the church by philosophical writings. As St. Ambrose was characterized by a passion for order and uniformity in christianity, so St. Augustine was characterized by his love for truth and knowledge...