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A Popular Moralist

Seagle, William | August 7, 1929 issue

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This article focuses on the book "A Preface to Morals," by Walter Lippmann. The warmth with which Lippmann's "A Preface to Morals" has been received makes him undoubtedly a popular moralist. It is only in part that the phenomenon can be explained by his suavity and charm. There appears to be not much comfort in the first of the two parts into which the argument of the book itself is divided. It is devoted to an exposition of the moral anarchy which has been caused by the decay of religion and the traditional order not only in personal lives but in the public affairs of business and government.

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PREFACE to Morals, A (Book); LIPPMANN, Walter, 1889-1974; CONDUCT of life; ETHICS; CHARM; ETIQUETTE
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