He longed to see him, as formerly, the ruling spirit in the printing rooms, but had not moral courage and decision of purpose enough to say this in the presence of Faust.
Thus we see in the theory a perversion and contradiction of the facts; for an ethical character is assigned to days and hours rather than to moral beings, who alone are capable of such values.
III The Moral Characteristics of the Hindu Time System This, doubtless, is the most striking feature of this chronology and gives it a larger influence than any other in the thoughts and life of the people of this land.
The most universally recognized of their divinities in primitive times, Varuna, is free from the vain passions and moral obliquities of more recent gods.
They found that humanity was not only rotten with insincerity, it was also deceiving itself with the vain delusion that moral integrity and ethical nobility can be bartered for a multitudinous ceremonial.
Whatsoever of good Vishnu, in his descent, is said to have come to achieve in the world, it certainly was not a moral or a spiritual good.
On the other hand, Jesus insisted always upon a right moral and spiritual attitude and relationship to God as the highest point of human attainment in life.
The moral influence of such a doctrine is rendered all but impossible by the fact that there is no consciousness (the true basis of moral continuity) to connect one birth with another.
The Christian incarnation must be, and is, first of all, of a perfect ethical type--an ideal of transcendent moral beauty and spiritual excellence.
There is no moral discipline for one in his being punished for a thing of which he has absolutely no conscious knowledge.
I gladly concede that it meant a state of moral achievement when the powers of the soul were at equilibrium and when resultant peace pervaded the life.
He taught that the most abject and socially submerged man upon earth is a son of God, and that at his moral and spiritual renovation there would be joy among the denizens of heaven.
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it.
In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well.
Thus his moral ground is taken from under his feet.
We cannot touch a string or move a stop but the charmingmoral transfixes us.
Vice and disease, which cast such a sombre moral hue over the world, seemed to have hardly any existance for him.
Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.
Both sections ought to learn that there was nothing in negro slavery to shock the moral sense, but that on the contrary it was in its general effect of the utmost beneficence to the slave.
The horror of horrors in this abyss of moral impurity to one of a superior race was their utter unconsciousness of incest.
Also it is not strange that they should lose temper, shower abuse upon their opponents, and fill the land with mutual accusations of heinous moral offences.
And in this investigation the same qualifications of all others who arraigned the system for what they alleged were its heinous moral wrongs to the slave are likewise involved.
When the history of the times has been impartially and adequately written the world will recognize that the patriotism and moral worth of neither side excels that of the other, and it will crown both.
Being in immediate contact and underrating the mental and moral virtues of others and exercising a sovereignty over them, his opportunities are enlarged to make other races his own in consanguinity.
All the while an increasing majority of them recognize that to assert that any use of liquor, wine, or beer is a moral wrong, as do a noisy few in season and out of season, is too extreme to be true or even politic.
After allowing fully for all these, there will be found a great residuum of progressive energy, of intellectual strength, and of moral worth in the people of the southern States.
With their large admixture of white blood, their comparatively good education and superb moral training, a southerner would think that you were merely mocking him if you named these as fairly representative negroes.
Mrs. Surratt and Wirz were hanged; the cruel cotton tax; the negroes were made rulers of the southern whites; it was provided ex post facto that the high moral duty of paying for the emancipated slaves should never be done.
The man whose sight can pierce the heavy mists of the slavery struggle still so dense cannot find in the world record of glorious stands for countries doomed by fate superiors in moral worth and great exploit.
He was a courteous, quiet man, of scholarly tastes, and evidently entertained the belief that moral suasion would eventually effect any purpose.
Their failures, their fights, their vacillations, all were before us, and it was an anxious life to be watching who won and who lost in those moral warfares.
The British moral soul, startled out of its hypocrisy the night before, demanded the bitter beer of self-consciousness and remorse the next morning.
I believe that the guns we have will be useless, except for their moral effect upon the enemy.
Whether their Christianity, or the Christianity of any savage people, does them any good whatever, or makes them the least more moral or better than their neighbours, it is needless now to inquire.
The others will perhaps arrive; but I have a moral conviction that that animal will never again make his appearance.
The moral of this evidently is that Parsees should not go to war in a country where mutton is scarce.
However, his moral energy enabled him to drive back his fears to the bottom of his heart.
Instead of casting him down, this scene had restored all Dick Sand's moral force.
And that was all the moral Cousin Benedict drew from the situation.
Nevertheless, it was time for this long series of moral and physical trials to come to an end.
Dick Sand, resisted by a supreme moral energy, caused by the sentiment of duty.
The moral sense is entirely lacking in them, and if they had any, how quickly they would lose it among the frightful atrocities of the African slave trade.
Perhaps, however, there was a wish to point a moral--a subtle moral such as Chinese scholars love.
Provided you can lie low, shell-fire soon loses even its moral effect.
Jim kept back the gambler's partner and the crowd and gave Ford elbow-room and some moral support, which did its part, in that it prevented any interference with the chastisement Ford was administering.
Ford was no moral weakling except, perhaps, when whisky and he came to hand-grips.
If he was let alone, and his moral regeneration forgotten, and he himself treated just like any other man, Mason felt that Ford would thereby have all the encouragement he needed.
Ford laughed and went up to the house to his supper, and to the constrained atmosphere which was telling on his nerves more severely than did the gallon jug in his closet, and the moral effort it cost to keep that jug full to the neck.
Hence the early Irish heroes are frequently found renouncing advantages, worldly honour, and life itself, at the bidding of some imperative moral impulse.
Thus "the moral Gower" has preserved for us an alternative legend of the cause of Constantine's conversion, which forms a good illustration of the virtue of pity in the "Confessio Amantis.
He was a conscientious man too, and had a strong moral objection to the proposal of killing and eating Spiller; but he did not want to offend the company, and he made his refusal as mild as possible.
He had finished his education, so I did not attempt to control him by moral suasion, or by anything else, but by degrees I succeeded in eliciting from him all the particulars he could impart about the criminals under his care.
O'Connell had triedmoral suasion on the English Government long enough, and to no purpose, so Philip and his fiery young friends were prepared to have recourse to arms.
He made the usual little moral speech, and bewailed his own misfortune in having to perform so disagreeable a duty.
We kept order in the school by moral suasion, but the task was sometimes difficult.
This Æglogue is rather moral and general than bent to any secret or particular purpose.
We do not mean by this fear that which is physical and personal only, though this is generally the sole idea which people have of the word; but moral and mental cowardice as well.
She would prescribe the same social restraints and moral regimen for her son as for her daughter, and she thinks the energies of masculine nature require no wider field and no looser rein.
This is a common manner of tormenting with reticent people who have a moral twist; and to fling stones at you from behind the shield of silence by which they have sheltered themselves is a pastime that hurts only one of the combatants.
You point the moral of the base ingratitude of man, and are a text on which they preach the sermon of non-intervention in the affairs of others.
The shopgirl and farmer's daughters come out in gorgeous array, with bonnets and skirts, streamers and furbelows, of wonderful construction; and their sisters of more cultivated taste regard their exaggerated toilets as moral crimes.
We should do badly, as things are ordered, if we went about the world with our natural moral faces.
This is specially true of young people and of women; both of whom call their natural love of opposition by the name of religious principle or moral duty.
In most cases they are obliged to eke out their scanty incomes by taking pupils; and here again the millstone round their necks is heavy, and they have to pay a large moral percentage on their pecuniary gains.
She is the moral anodyne of her circle; and when she ceases to soothe, she abdicates the function assigned to her by nature and dies out of her allotted uses.
Burmah is a country which needs all good influences--moral and religious.
Material forces may open the door to moral influences; the doctrines of human freedom and of human brotherhood may be preached on battle plains as well as in Christian temples.
In the essence of things truth is allied to moral purity.
As to the moralresults of Mohammedanism, it produces some excellent effects.
There is no other that so completely upturns moral distinctions, and makes evil good and good evil.
The same necessity enforces peace with each other, and therefore from necessity, as well as from moral considerations, this has been the policy of China from the beginning.
Thus moral distinctions are destroyed, and vice and virtue are together banished from the world.
There is no need to tell of crossing the continent, which completed our circuit of the globe, but only to add in a word the lesson and the moral of this long journey.
Moral influences cannot be weighed and measured like material forces.
Thus falsehood works like poison in the blood, and runs through every vein till the whole moral being is spotted with leprosy.
There is no trace in the Koran of the sublime doctrines of the Gospel, or even of its moral precepts.
While I regret the inclemency of the morning, I have been thinking that after all there was a sort of instructive moral force in the uncertainty of the weather, which our friends in Southern California do not enjoy.
I am glad to find that your children are being trained in intelligence and in those moral restraints which shall make them good citizens.
We have come out of the land of irrigation and roses into this land where the Lord takes care of the crops; and this dependence upon the seasons is not without its instructive and moral influences.
Gratification and amazement struggle for supremacy as we contemplate the population, wealth, and moral strength of our country.
The same resolute love of liberty, the same courage to face danger for a cause that had its inspiration in high moral purposes and resolves abided in the hearts of your people.
Our Nation is too great, both in material strength and in moral power, to indulge in bluster or to be suspected of timorousness.
They were abiding under the sheltering moralinfluences and quietude of these New England hills.
Little Nancy, or, the Punishment of Greediness," is representative of this sort of moral and cautionary tale.
Evidently residence in America had not yet sapped the young girl's moral strength, or reduced her to the frivolous creature an American woman was reputed in England to be.
It is not the present purpose, however, to do other than to make clear her own aim, and to try to show the effect of her extremely moral tales upon her own generation of writers for American children.
Through every stage of the story the author still clings to the long-established precedent of giving moraland religious instruction.
That there might be something in the family novel expressly for children, Richardson sometimes stepped aside from the main narrative to tell them a moral tale.
But their sale was enormous, and a factor to be reckoned with because of their influence upon the educational and moral tales of their period.
The books for American children therefore divided themselves into three classes: the denominational story, to set forth the doctrines of one church; the educational tale; and the moral narrative of American life.
When not impossibly pious, these children of anonymous fiction were either insufferable prigs with a steel moral code, or so ill-bred as to be equally impossible and unnatural.
The object of the Samaj is to benefit the world by improving its physical, social, intellectual and moral conditions.
Nevertheless these non-moral taboos or restraints may have played a part in building up in us that faculty of preferring the larger good to the impulse of the moment which is the note of real civilization.
The moral and political consequences of so great a change in the powers of transition of persons and intelligence from place to place are not easily calculated.
She was the equal of her husband in missionary zeal and enthusiasm, and he himself bears testimony to the unerring skill which she possessed in gauging the moral qualities of the Chinese.
On one occasion, in the Moral Philosophy class, which then suffered from the failing health of the professor, the teacher pro tem.
I got nothing in the logic, but in moralphilosophy in 1865 I was one of those who took an active part in the rebellion against Dr.
The moral effect of such a distinguished scholar giving his life for Christ among the heathen was very great indeed.
All his moral qualities might have an interest for his friends; she was a mere acquaintance, and was only concerned for what related to his bearing in society.
Ay," muttered the Major, who really had but few sympathies with merelymoral abstractions.
In all our moral chemistry we have never yet hit upon an antidote to a chilling reception.
Unhappy little woman, she only saw him in his dark days of cloud and rain, and she never came into his presence except in a sort of moral mackintosh made for the worst weather.
Ah, brother Peter, if your moneyed debts had only given you one-half the torment of your moral ones, what a rich man you might have been to-day!
He smiled so blandly, and looked so sweetly under it all, as though it was a kind of moral shampooing, from which he would come out all the fresher and more vigorous.
If we turn from Alcibiades the politician to Byron the poet, we have a no less memorable instance of intellectual power early linked with moral perversity and completely bewitched and bedevilled by presumptuous egotism.
The plot may be described as being French, and the moral as English; that is, the jealous wife outwits the faithless husband, instead of the opposite result.
In the churches inhere almost exclusively the sources of influence available for the moral culture of the people.
Catharine was totally unscrupulous, having about as much of moral sense as goes to the making of a tigress; but it needed not that she should marry into the House of Valois to render assassination a Gallic crime.
It was a moralplague that ran over Europe, as the Black Death made the same tour a couple of hundred years earlier.
And yet, strange to say, the character of the blithe Adele, notwithstanding the terrible nature of her early associations, seems to fuse more readily into agreement with the moral atmosphere about her than does that of the recreant boy.
If the work is well done, you will soon have both moral and financial support.
This adds to their appreciation of the beauties and adaptations found among plants on every side, and cannot fail to produce good results in moral as well as in mental development.
Soon as her schooling's completed, she walks out of that seminary, and goes to a place where the moral atmosphere is a trifle purer.
To explain a circumstance seemingly so singular, it is necessary to call in the aid of a saying, culled from that language richest of all others in moral and metaphysical imagery--the Spanish.
And yet the explanation may partly lie in moral and psychological causes.
Returning to the islands, Benavides takes charge of the diocese of Nueva Segovia, where he labors zealously for the moral improvement of the Spaniards, but most of all for the protection of the Indians from Spanish rapacity.
Aduarte declares that wonderful results were thus achieved, rendering those Indians moraland obedient, and achieving this entirely by kindness and gentleness.
The zealots thenceforth ruled, and all the bonds of civil, religious, and moral order were dissolved.
