These books also have a moral purpose, each in turn considering the question whether an individual is responsible for his acts.
This story, like so many of the others, was written with a moral purpose.
Mrs. Morton's Power of Sympathy, a novel written with a moral purpose, is a poorly constructed story of characters whom we fortunately do not meet outside of books.
But in others, there is a combination of a systematic theology with a mystic fervour and a moral purpose, which seems hardly to belong to the ancient world.
It cannot quicken when it unnerves the mind and brings despair of moral purpose.
When George Eliot writes on subjects involving a moral purpose or ideal, she is always wise and interesting.
He was not a bad man at heart, but he had no moral purpose, no ethical convictions.
The vision of Mordecai on Blackfriars' bridge affords a fine example of her love of the ideal in moral purpose, and shows how stimulating it is to her imagination.
So much as this, indeed, Science has rendered highly probable, that the uniformity of nature is never broken except for a moral purpose.
Let it be granted that the claim for freedom of the will has been often unduly pushed far beyond this limit, and let it be granted that religions professing to be revelations have included records of miracles which had no moral purpose.
They have a moral purpose: they free energy from the friction attendant upon vague, obscure, and uncertain situations, by enlightening men as to what they may do and how they may do it.
Others again have held that if no moral purpose is proposed and each seeks to get what he can for himself, the result will be a just distribution because of the beneficent effects of competition.
Social institutions may help or hinder the outward execution of moral purpose; they may be favorable or hostile to the successful outward display of virtue.
Phelps himself, indignant at the stupidity, now proceeds to credit Mark with a moral purpose!
A work of the imagination can justify itself, in their sight, only if it show a moral purpose, and that purpose must be obvious and unmistakable.
Now it was shown in the last lecture how distinctly the moral purpose of the English fiction represented by this upper group was announced, though we were obliged to record a mournful failure in realizing that announcement.
In one class of phenomena, a moral purpose may be plainly discovered as the purpose of an intelligent causing power, which has chosen a particular means for the accomplishment of an end.
Another distinction of the greatest consequence is that which divides the phenomena in question according to their relation to a moral purpose.
In other words, I must define a logical transition from prudence to preference, or moral purpose.
The higher interest which thus replaces the original interest, and which is entitled to do so only {54} because it incorporates them, I propose to call moral purpose.
Such influences must be selected with reference to their effect on moral purpose, 202.
The lack in this fallacious faith is central; there is no place in it for the movement of God's moral purpose.
He may not weave arguments to prove that such a world as this in its fundamental structure is fitted to a moral purpose.
So far is the world from being absolved from cruelty, on the plea of moral purpose, one may say, that its injustice is the very crux of its offense.
The hypothesis upon which the “moral purpose,” so called, is introduced into fiction is that men shall be moved to accept its teaching.
When there is talk of moral purpose in fiction most persons are either a little indignant or a good deal inclined to get out of the way.
What is generally meant by the question whether a story shall have a moral purpose is whether it shall convey an avowed lesson, whether, in short, it shall be undisguisedly or at least deliberately didactic.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moral purpose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
