Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complete series of humorous little books and comic songs, written by an author whose identity has never been found out, was illustrated by George Cruikshank; this is now being shown, as is the illustrated copy of Watt's "Divine and Moral Songs", written in simplified language especially for the use of children...
Much of this has been said before, but Marriage and Morals is valuable for being at once fundamental and clear, unbiased and persuasive. Author Russell tries to go to the root of each of his ideas, to explain asceticism, romanticism. He takes nothing for granted, not even that parents are beneficial for their children. He writes as a humanist, defending the happiness of man against many moral prejudices, advocates his changes lucidly and wittily...
...mark them off from other human values, as though the nature of man were built in bulkheads; as though there were a department of poetry hermetically sealed, a kind of padded room of aesthetic so effectively sound proof that the ravings of poesy are unable to disturb either the moral sense in us or the instinct for truth...
...Hoover and MacDonald attitude lies in the fact that each is eager to find a solution to the problem, and that in approaching it is this frank and informal way they are going far to create what Ramsay MacDonald so well stated was necessary to gain physical disarmament, namely, moral disarmament...
This afternoon at 4 o'clock in Emerson D, George Herbert Palmer '64, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Emeritus, will lecture on "Growing Old." Professor Palmer has spoken but few times recently and has intimated that this lecture, which is open to the public, will be his last...