The moralization of the world has, as a matter of historic fact, kept pace with the secularizing of life.
"A Grammar of Freethought"
Chapman Cohen
It was "ended in the Holy City of Colen," in September, 1471. The first book printed by him in England was The Game and Playe of the Chesse, in March, 1474. It is a fanciful moralization of the game, abounding with quaint old legends and stories.
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)"
Isaac D'Israeli
While he was in that condition, a beautiful female apparition floated before his eyes, and, on being questioned, announced her name to be moralization.
"History of the United Netherlands, 1594"
John Lothrop Motley