As a matter of fact countless human imaginations live in this moralistic and epic kind of a universe, and find its disseminated and strung-along successes sufficient for their rational needs.
I can not speak officially as a pragmatist here; all I can say is that my own pragmatism offers no objection to my taking sides with this more moralistic view, and giving up the claim of total reconciliation.
The latter then loses its peculiar flavor of the didactic and pedantic; its ultra-moralistic and hortatory tone.
When the self is regarded as something complete within itself, then it is readily argued that only internal moralistic changes are of importance in general reform.
Whittier--well, all of them have fallen more or less under the moralistic influence of the country.
And in the case of Douglas and Lincoln, Douglas is quick to sense the moralistichypocrisy with which the Republicans are draping their trafficking ambitions.
The apologetic and moralistic train of thought is alone developed with systematic clearness.
It is, however, inconsistent with the moralistic teachings unfolded above, and could only be united with them at a few points.
It was merely his moralistic train of thought that saved him from the conclusion that there is a restoration of all individual men.
According to this conception the central point of history was no longer the Logos as such, but Christ as the incarnate God, while at the same time the moralistic interest was balanced by a really religious one.
But, where this conception is the prevailing one, moralistic intellectualism is broken through, and we can now point to a specific, supernatural blessing of salvation, produced by revelation and redemption.
It is tragic that some would-be Christians, like Mrs. Strait, become so moralistic that they condemn rather than help people.
The lives of moralistic people are not beautiful to behold.
That is the reason why Mrs. Strait holds to the moralistic concept of the Christian life.
Moralism The next member of the group who spoke up was Mrs. Strait, and she voiced for herself and for millions of other church people the moralistic understanding of the faith.
Or conscientiousness--what was above described as themoralistic view.
But whether they belonged to the urbane school of Horace, or to the severely moralistic school of Juvenal, they soon found themselves falling into one or the other of two modes of writing.
See how the moralistic note is struck in the field of political satire.
The moralistic type of humor, the crack of Juvenal's whip, as well as the delicate Horatian playing around the heart-strings, has characterized our humor and satire from the beginning.
To argue in favour of one or the other or to attempt to draw too definite a line between them is a futile implication of the possibility of uniformity and, moreover, is to shift the criteria of art from an esthetic to a moralistic basis.
The ordinary moralistic state of mind makes the salvation of the world conditional upon the success with which each unit does its part.
But whereas the merely moralistic spurning takes an effort of volition, the Christian spurning is the result of the excitement of a higher kind of emotion, in the presence of which no exertion of volition is required.
Some say that the capacity or incapacity for it is what divides the religious from the merely moralistic character.
Those who have wished to react against such emasculated erudition have often thrown themselves into the opposite extreme, that is, into a dogmatic, abstract, intellectualistic, or moralisticform of criticism.
Not only are they opposed to themoralistic and intellectualistic view, but they are its active opponents.
Aristophanes and Strabo, and above all Aristotle, dwell upon the didactic and moralistic possibility of poetry.
For the empiricists of Aesthetic, intellectualism and moralism represent progress; for the intellectualists, hedonistic and moralistic alike, agnosticism is progress and may be called Kant.
Cowperwood saw things in no such moralistic or altruistic light.
In spite of a conventional impulse to burst forth in moralistic denunciation, solemnly phrased, he was compelled for the moment to see the other man's viewpoint.
What is to be done with such a rag-bag, moralistic ass as this?
It is a trivial habit of mind, a pernicious critical obsession, of which many over-earnest adult readers are victims--that of wringing from every and any bit of writing an abstract or moralistic meaning.
It is in reality a conglomeration of hackneyedmoralistic considerations.
If Socialism should attempt to create a new human nature within the limits of the old world, it would be only a new edition of the old moralistic Utopias.
Dacier's insistence that the primary function of poetry is to instruct and that pleasure is merely an aid to that end could easily be distorted into a crudely moralistic view of the art.
On much the same level of thinking is the moralistic theory which requires that the misfortunes of the hero should be the penalty for some fault or weakness.
For moralistic painting, however, there can be no excuse.
The second theory which I shall examine is the moralistic or Platonic.
The one is moralistic and reformatory in its aim, the other is aesthetic and contemplative.
Plato's Moralistic Objection Nothing could be more timely, as a contribution to a critical battle which is just now being waged, [Footnote: See the Introduction and the closing chapter of Stuart P.
Some men (even at the student age) are so naturally cool-hearted that the moralistic hypothesis never has for them any pungent life, and in their supercilious presence the hot young moralist always feels strangely ill at ease.
Then, when the story-telling gift was developed and the reform was accomplished, she continued to hold her mirror up to nature--a kind of Claude Lorraine glass with a strong tint of moralistic blue in it.
He seldom or never wrote a didactic poem, but he usually composed over a strong moralistic counterpoint.
Certainly he can not be jammed down our throat, and quite as certainly his stimulating and cathartic doses can not be snatched from our lips by moralistic prohibitionists.
Mr. Freeman, who handles his documents admirably and is not slanted from the truth bymoralistic concern for hero or heroine, is, nevertheless, naive and blind to the facts which he has so carefully considered.
In the moralistic view the forgiveness of sin is the result of the renewal that is spontaneously brought about on the ground of knowledge shewing itself in penitent feeling.
If the new moralistic feature stood out still more emphatically in the piety of the second century, it vanished more and more behind the religious feature, the longing after life[124] and after a Redeemer God.
But the tradition of this saying and many like it, and above all, the religious instinct, where it was more powerfully stirred, did not permit a consistent development of that moralistic conception.
The moralistic view, in which eternal life is the wages and reward of a perfect moral life wrought out essentially by one's own power, took the place of first importance at a very early period.
The Romish first Epistle of Clement, which also contains other Pauline reminiscences (reconciliation and justification) represents the same Christology, but it set it in a moralistic mode of thought.
The moralistic mode of thought is classically represented by the Shepherd of Hermas, and the second Epistle of Clement, in which, besides, the eschatological element is very prominent.
The [Greek: pneuma] in man was regarded by them as a supernatural principle, and on that account they are free from all rationalism and moralistic dogmatism.
Simple souls found their spiritual pasture in little mincing "devotions"; while robuster minds built up for themselves a natural moralistic religion, quite as close to Epictetus as to Christianity.
Greek: hemou Iesou Xristou] interpolated) has even led to the theory, ably but unconvincingly maintained by Spitta, that the writing is a mere recast of a Jewish moralistic writing like the Two Ways.
The moralistic conception of the gospel as a "law of liberty," the very phrase recalling the expression of Barn.
The appeal of credible fact is universal; propaganda does not consist of doctoring the fact with moralistic blather, but of selecting that fact which is correct, interesting, and bad for the enemy to know.
Furthermore, it was not moralistic misgivings which kept us from applying to the enemy front lines a propaganda campaign as successful as theirs, but very sober practical obstacles.
It may be said that in him the older moralistic tendency in theology was embodied in opposition to the new religious spirit of Augustine.
