Word: human
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Nation" before a large and enthusiastic audience in Sanders Theatre Saturday evening. After being introduced by R. C. Bolling 3L., Mr. Bryan began by expressing his great pleasure in addressing an audience of students. He then said in part: Civilization may be defined as the harmonious development of the human race physically, mentally, and morally. Of the three elements in civilization I am satisfied that the moral element is not only an important element but is the paramount element. We must judge the nations as we judge the individuals, for there is no limitation upon a moral principle...
...going to help others and ourselves, we must have some fundamental rule for our political life. That rule is found in the Declaration of Independence, which declares that "All men are created free and equal." I believe that this is the most important political truth that ever fell from human lips. If you do not believe in it, you want a government of favoritism...
...arguments for imperialism may be summed up in a single sentence. "There's money in it, God's in it, we're in it, and we can't get out." Yet do we wish to purchase money with human blood? Already imperialism has cost thousands of our boys and millions of money. Are we to measure our strength by the number of men we can kill and the number of lands we can sieze; or shall we rise, and in rising draw all men unto...
Yesterday evening Dr. Lyman Abbott lectured in Brooks House on the Principles of "True Democracy." He treated democracy as a spirit and not as a form of government. The essence of that spirit, he showed, is that the world and life are divinely intended for the whole human race and not for a favored few. This involves the principle that government shall be for the benefit of the governed. This fact is illustrated by the negro problem in the south and the colonial question in the Phillippines...
...decide whether or not we shall accept this conception today. Some explanation of how man and the world came into existence and what are their destinies is absolutely essential to satisfy the inward cravings of human nature. Thinking men of all ages have been able to suggest but two ways of accounting for man and the world: one by supposing them the creations and creatures of great mechanical, dead "natural" laws, the other by supposing them due to natural laws, but laws the manifestation and will of divine intelligence...