Tangents and Vectors

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Morality Redfined in 1776

In my last post I mentioned that our culture is redefining words to take the meaning out of them. I specifically mentioned the word "morality". Shortly after that I cam across this comment in Wesley's Journals, Tuesday, July 2, 1776:
In the evening I preached at York, on the fashionable religion, vulgarly called morality;..."
It would seem that over 200 years ago people were putting new meanings to the word "morality." Some human tendencies never seem to change.

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