Word: morall
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...moal questions we must consult not only our reason but our hearts. In such cases it would be absurd to bar out our wills. The simple question of the existence of moral truth cannot be answered by pure intellect. Moral skepticism can no more be refuted by logic than can intellectual skepticism...
...student who was fortunate enough to enter Harvard College in the sixties entered at a time of great intellectual and moral growth. During these years Emerson had kept writing about an ideal life free from the turmoils of mankind. Lowell, Whittier and Harriet Beecher Stowe were stirring the consciences of mankind against slavery. The words of William Lloyd Garrison were engraved upon the memories of Harvard men. The news of John Brown's raid had startled the land, and now the echo of the guns fired at Fort Sumter was heard. On Bloody Monday, 1862, the campaign was begun, which...
...needed-with the ample testimony that supports it-to strike a truthful balance. What Keats's development would have been no man can hope to know. Matthew Arnold has said, "He is with Shakespeare." We can only say that Keats in his later work showed a sympathy with the moral and intellectual life of the world which was wanting to his earlier verse; and that the preface to "Endymion," certain other critical work, and many of the letters show an intellectual quality which critics have so often denied to Keats...
...lecturer then discussed at some length the charges of immorality made against Whitman. He believed that, while Whitman may violate some tastes, he contravenes no moral principle. He taught that the body should be reverenced and no part of it despised...
...latter was president of the Cambridge Athletic Club. "Faculty control," the article in the Outing says, "exists in no less degree in the old than in the new world, but the nature of it differs very widely. In the new it is official, in the old it is entirely moral...