We see also that mores do not form under social convulsion and discord.
If a man passes from one class to another, his acts show the contrast between the mores in which he was bred and those in which he finds himself.
This shows the revolt of latermores against what once was not tabooed.
Things which have been in the mores are put under police regulation and later under positive law.
The environment, in the new countries, favored the mores of the class from which the emigrants came.
In the time of Peter the Great the ancient national mores of Russia were very strong and firmly established.
The ruling clique can use force to warp the mores towards some result which they have selected, especially if they bring their effort to bear on the ritual, not on the dogmas, and if they are contented to go slowly.
Never until the nineteenth century was it in the mores of any society to feel that the sacrifice of the mortal welfare of one human being to the happiness of another was a thing which civil institutions could not tolerate.
This is the last and greatest lesson of the revolution: it is impossible to abolish the mores and to replace them by new ones rationally invented.
It belongs to the work of publicists and statesmen to gauge the forces in the mores and to perceive their tendencies.
The mores aim always to arrive at correct notions of virtue.
Eugenic mores will exist only when many intelligent people become so convinced of the ethical value of eugenics that that conviction sinks into their subconscious minds.
The O'Mores had wider contiguous wastes, and managed to keep better together, but they were glad to sue for peace.
In the following year, Hartpole was one of those licensed by the Lord Deputy to cess Ormonde's lands for protection against the O'Mores and O'Connors.
Some of the O'Mores held a meeting at Holy Cross in Tipperary, where Neill M'Lice was chosen chief of Leix.
It abounds with excellent moral reflections, and the same may be said of it with equal justice as of the Captives:-- 'Ad pudicos mores facta est haec fabula.
I have stated in my account that there were two John Mores who were contemporaries at a period considerably earlier, one of Lincoln's Inn and the other of the Middle Temple.
Whitaker's text here adds a passage relating to Tobias:-- Marie Magdalene By mores levede and dewes; Love and leel byleyve Heeld lyf and soule togedere.
And also Marie Maudeleyne By mores lyvede and dewes Ac moost thorugh devocion And mynde of God almyghty.
The O'Mores remained quiet for a time on the lands reserved to them.
He was employed by the borderers of the Pale against the O'Mores and O'Connors, and seems to have made his mark from the first.
Sidenote: The O'Mores and O'Connors, and their neighbours.
Paris told everyone that all the nobility of Ireland were resolved to cast off the English yoke for fear of losing all their lands, as the O'Mores and O'Connors had done.
The young O'Mores resisted the levying of the tribute, and Lysaght, the eldest, was killed in a fray.
The O'Mores and O'Connors were to be still further chastised, and as much as possible effected against the Scots.
He made successful raids on the O'Mores and O'Reillys, and for slaying many of the latter had a grant of the customs of Strangford and other places in Down.
Before Cosby could get his men together the O'Mores had vanished.
The O'Mores pleaded that the Earl had first attacked them, and he rejoined that he had done so in self-defence.
Ossory had enough to do to keep the O'Mores and Kavanaghs in check, but he gained one important ally in the person of Sir Thomas Eustace, of Baltinglass, who brought forty of his kinsmen and left hostages in the Earl's hands.
Yes, and I've met the O'Mores who are frequently in Chicago society.
In the city every social group tends to create its own milieu, and, as these conditions become fixed, the mores tend to accommodate themselves to the conditions thus created.
The political process, by which a society or social group formulates its wishes and enforces them, goes on within the limits of the mores and is carried on by public discussion, legislation, and the adjudication of the courts.
Here we must recall certain essential qualities of the mores which we have hitherto viewed from another angle.
The mores represent the attitudes in which we agree.
In general, standards of behavior that are in the mores are not the subject of discussion, except so far as discussion is necessary to determine whether this or that act falls under one or the other of the accepted social sanctions.
In immigration the accommodation to the economic situation and to the folkways and mores of the native society are more important than in colonization.
Progress and the Mores[342] What now are some of the leading features in the mores of civilized society at the present time?
What is the relation of mores to common law and statute law?
We judge some religions as unethical because the mores of which they approve are not our mores, that is, the standards of higher civilization.
Change in mores is something like change in the nest-building habits of certain birds, the swallows, for example.
They are crescive when they take shape in the mores, growing by the instinctive efforts by which the mores are produced.
Under the influence of the mores men act typically, and so representatively, not as individuals but as members of a group.
Community mores with respect to race vary," Evans wrote in 1956, and "such matters are largely beyond direct purview of the Department (p.
At the same time, he rejected the idea that the Army should take the lead in altering the racial mores of the nation.
They also rationalized their opposition to integration by saying that the armed forces should not be an instrument of social change and that the services could only reflect the social mores of the society from which they sprang.
Judge Hastie reported their feelings: "The traditionalmores of the South have been widely accepted and adopted by the Army as the basis of policy and practice affecting the Negro soldier.
The family history of the Mores is too long for a chapter; so would be a detailed list of the furniture and pictures of the house, some of which are catalogued in the guide-books, though the general public may see them but seldom.
The shame is fanned again to fury by the sight of MORES scornful face.
In the intensity of MORES feeling, a wine-glass, gripped too strongly, breaks and falls in pieces onto a finger-bowl.
Theirs, therefore, was an extremely difficult task to adapt themselves to the mores of these places, and in their efforts to do so, it is very obvious that they could not avoid committing errors.
This most unusual demand for labor, coupled with the necessity of having to be met wholly by thousands of Negroes from the South, wrought a considerable change in the labor mores of the North.
