...treating them as though they were more thick-skinned than generals and more extravagant than private's. To say that they are worth a good deal more than even...end on which to fix their minds. And, as their minds ate, so, in the long run and with exceptions, their practical activity will be. The first condition...

...and quarrelsome" ness of human nature. What it can do is to " create an environment in which these are not " the qualities which are encouraged. It cannot...they please, they " can live up, and not live down " (h). We have already seen how the application of these principles, based, as their advocates believe,...

...qualities which are encouraged. It cannot secure that men live up to their principles. What it can do is establish their social order upon principles to which, if they please, they can live up and not live down.30 To which may be contrasted, as Tawney points out, "the compound of economic optimism and moral...

...advocating state action simply in order to create the right conditions for moral action and good character: It is obvious, indeed, that no change of system or...can offer them an end on which to fix their minds. 92 Tawney further expanded on this view in 1924, when he was involved in a conference on Christian...