Word: fellowmen
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...down to the present. His old hatred of death as the source of fear has been replaced by hatred of life, source of despair. But a mysterious blond man who has haunted him all these years, takes him for an automobile ride and explains that Arthur must love his fellowmen; that the future of humanity is divinity. . . . The tale is not unreadable. It does nothing if not rush. Over the last 75 years it puts on such a burst of speed that the landscape blurs entirely save for landmarks like Abraham Lincoln, Pittsburgh factories, modern "go-getters." But the book...
...contemporary literature. Fleeing the vengeance of a hostile mob, he arrives in a tine settlement of Finns, living peacefully on the shore of Lake Superior in the shadow of a scowling granite face which Nature, in an angry mood, has carved on the mountainside. Sick to death of his fellowmen, he grasps at the ideal of the superman, whom no laws or conventions can touch, and seeks to raise himself to this height. The villagers are raw material for the exploitation of his new-found ideal. He lusts for the wife of his host; he plays upon the superstitions...
...absorbed and silent, a hard, steady thinker, he became, on appropriate occasion, the most vivacious and sparkling of companions. Sternness in him was wedded to geniality. Seldom, perhaps, has so uncompromising a moral and scholarly standard, a veracity so inflexible, been joined to such gentle considerateness for one's fellowmen...
...pity such things are allowed to continue toward "Foreigners" who should have Justice, if boys (?) of 22 do not possess sufficient courtesy toward their fellowmen. Such things as the above "Persecution" are what occasion international prejudice and lead to wholesale murders...
...newspapers where editors deliberately publish things that are not true because they think they ought to do it in order to stand well with their subscribers. Such people, in my judgment, are not only unfair to the newspaper profession, but they are doing a decided injury to their fellowmen by perpetuating untruths among them. Being very fond of Walt Whitman, I am, of course, sufficiently familiar with his poetry to know that he was not an atheist, and I am also familiar with his history, and know that he was not ousted from the Treasury Department because of atheistic tendencies...