Word: human
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Humanism's" tenets, described as new, inspiring, scientific, proved to be tangential, vague. "Humanists unanimously agree in rejecting the supernatural. This is the great dividing line between them and all other religions of today. . . . So fundamental is the distinction between supernatural religion and Humanism, that there are those who deny that Humanism is a religion at all. . . . Humanists do not so much desire a new idea of God, as they desire a new idea of man. If Humanists were to make a creed, the first article would be: 'I believe in Man.' . . . Humanists are not only opposed...
...come to me in the streets with their eyes streaming tears pleading with me not to abandon the fight but to remain firm. One of Herbert Hoover's own Wartime posters read: 'If 70 million Germans wept for 1,000 years they could not make disappear the human miseries they caused in Belgium and Northern France.' I shall fight to ensure the perpetuation of the inscription if it takes my last cent and my last breath...
...which shows that the undergraduate at West Point was surprisingly like his Harvard brother, that human nature being what it is, the undergraduates of today are not less alike than those of the good old times, and that there is no basic reason why the men of the cannot continue to assemble together periodically to witness these friendly Crimson and of the Black, Gold and Gray contests between their teams...
...entire globe," he said, "is being embraced in a commercial order determined by physical science and obscuring for many the idea of a living God, while psychologists are putting forward insight into human behavior as the basis of a code of conduct instead of the principles derived from religion. "What manner of church is it that can appeal to souls living in this age? It is only a worshipping, teaching, practicing, creative church whose members are prepared to mark themselves off from all outsiders by a different manner of life affecting all their financial, domestic, civic and social relations, forcing...
Seeker. These sights are interlinked with a perpetual seeking. At first the author senses a mystery; he wishes to know "how it is with human beings." Girls, he decides, are the mystery, for even the complex Ferd, whom he plainly adores, is not. With Hilde he craftily sets about a solution, but neither of them, aged 12, knows quite what to do. For three marks the butcher's boy consents to exhibit the mystery with a Polish girl, but the author runs away believing the girl is being murdered. When he later undresses the sleeping Mein-chen, a farm...