Word: human
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...country should be one, and should be ruled in the spirit of a broad and generous democracy. So high were the hopes of these men, so firm their resolve that our land should be the home of a free united people, a field for the full development of the human race, that they thought no price too great to pay for that...
Religion is at the present time becoming more and more humanistic in its application--and social service is another word for a laboratory course in human nature. No man can rightfully say that he has known or tried to benefit man until he has seen specimens of his own species that need aid--not aid always of substantial nature--but the moral and mental aid that an educated man can give his uneducated brothers...
Mayor Fitzgerald's recent suppression of "The Easiest Way" brought into prominence the mayor's power of censorship. Leaving out of consideration the wisdom of this particular prohibition, there can be no doubt that there have appeared, unchallenged, numerous dramatic productions calculated to feed on human weaknesses. Such plays as the "Follies" which excite the baser passions of mankind by their sensuous dances and flippant jests in regard to breaches of the Seventh Commandment and to drunkenness have been allowed to vulgarize and debase their audiences...
...total impressions. The question before us is to define the total impression of the life of Jesus on the world, and to express our relation to it. It is in this total view of things that the Christian religion appeals to mankind. It is essentially a religion for human beings, and we cannot seriously maintain that any religion will take the place of one which is so broadly human and universal...
...greatest strength. All religious systems eventually end in mystery and an act of faith. Purely agnostic or rationalistic systems will not satisfy mankind. The Christian faith with its doctrine of love, if it does not solve the mysteries, leaves us more hopeful, and is more in sympathy with human life, than any other religion...