Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...mistaken for ends. Liberty, which will be considered first, is of two distinct kinds: real liberty and legal liberty. The former is the kind that is of the greatest interest to men. Laws decrease legal liberty but increase real liberty. There are also two kinds of rights: legal and moral; but there are no such things as inalienable rights as maintained by Jefferson, Mill and George. Abraham Lincoln said: "No man has a right to do wrong." Equality is an equal distribution of wealth among the classes of society, and the equal distribution of the means of consumption is desirable...
...fact is established that whenever men as individuals are free to work, to earn, and to save and use their earnings as they deem fit, the capable everywhere tend to rise to prosperity. Skillful men are always in demand at good wages. Thus as the moral side is also developed by individualism and competition, the strongest characters are secured...
...Political Engineering" yesterday afternoon. He explained that in the field of industry and mechanics, our civilization is in keeping with our idea of the twentieth century, because scientific methods of Investigation have been applied. In the field of ethics, however, our civilization is distinctly mediaeval, inasmuch as our moral codes are based upon personal Intuition and not upon scientific research. Mr. MacKaye believes that if scientific principles are applied to our code of morals, it will be as easy to obtain happiness as to manufacture the most common product...
...committee of eleven professors of the University has arranged this series of lectures with the view of initiating an ethical system founded on commonsense and to derive a moral code from it which can be applied to modern politics. By bringing up the vital questions which confront those desirous of bringing about good government they desire to interest college men and enlist their support...
...Fish said that the number of men present at the mass meeting was less than it should have been. He declared that the material for the Freshman team was good and that the coaching was the best that any Freshman victory over Yale would give the University team great moral support...