Moreover, the idea of equality, on reflection, turns out not to be a simple one, so that the meaning of the democratic social ideal needs to be examined and defined. (religion-online.org)
The duty of the individual to determine his own conduct and profit or suffer by the consequences seems, on the contrary, to be one of our best rooted contemporary Protestant social ideals. (religion-online.org)
Yet it is notable that through this experience, dominated as it seems to have been by a self - interest as crass as that which he ascribed to his God, he paid unconscious tribute to common social ideals of justice and humanity. (religion-online.org)