moral improvement

His main argument being the great moral improvement of the country.

I know your ideas on the moral improvement of the soldier, they're quite excellent.

We can have a national moral improvement through him.

For a decade or so there was an uplifting sense of moral improvement.

She thinks he is good for my moral improvement."

Moral condemnation could, however, be turned into action for moral improvement.

The same pastors later recognized the moral improvement which education had generated among the girls and their mothers.

Of the optimistic 19th-century vision of progress and moral improvement, little remained.

Black Americans regarded education as the surest path to economic success, moral improvement and personal happiness.

Feminists' commitment to moral improvement and environmental reform had a direct influence on their image of the prostitute.

Much of their music focused on idealism, social reform, equal rights, moral improvement, community activism and patriotism.

Moral improvement in Austen's works is not only for the characters but also for the readers.

Wherever a new school sprang up, in a short time a moral improvement could be noted in the youth.

His pedagogical sense made him create a philosophy in which the spiritual manifestations were useful to social and moral improvements of men.

Words that preached love and moral improvement.

The spirits sometimes counselled moral improvement, in one case, calling for the conception of a child destined to be a new messiah.

Strachey also mocks Arnold's efforts at moral improvement of the general public, for example his unsuccessful weekly newspaper.

"Our moral improvement has reached its finish, and our intellect grows by leaps and bounds."

It seemed to him to be the only salve for his troubled conscience and the only hope of moral improvement open to him.

He sought to improve Portuguese administration in the colonies, especially in matters associated with natural resource extraction and the moral improvement of its population.

Promote the mental and moral improvement of the human race by the advancement of the philosophy of humanism.

God is redefined as the sum of natural powers or processes that allows mankind to gain self-fulfillment and moral improvement.

"It's a name with a great tradition behind it," I said, "and I'll be delighted to bring that tradition for your moral improvement.

Unlike most cancer survivor/writers who profess moral improvement, his claim seems to be more than a way of finding something worthwhile in unspeakably bad luck.

But if you care more about faraway people in faraway lands only because their welfare may affect yours, does that really count as moral improvement?