Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be a pleasure for me if Anthropologist Hooton would relax and take a sea voyage. He has become ever so egotistical and intolerable of human failings. He has flowered beautifully in a Democracy-so much so that instead of correcting and constructing he has become like other Caesars- destructive...
...meddling with nature has been detrimental to his own evolutionary status, there is no quarrel. But when he says: "the quality of any individual mind is probably inherent and immutable," that, "we must improve man before we can perfect his institutions and make him behave," that, "the human improvement required is primarily biological," he is talking nonsense. Or, rather, he is talking like that flower of our higher institutions of learning, a college professor...
Harvard is bucking the tide again. The university renowned for its indifference now refuses to be indifferent in the one matter where indifference seems to be the keynote of the collegiate day. This is as it should be. Religion is still a moving factor in human life, although in some parts its struggle is increasingly difficult. The Harvard stand of non-indifference is a fine tribute to the men who have nurtured religion here, and it serves notice that some young men in a university proud of setting unusual styles still refuse to relinquish their high ideals...
...Stetson admits that these chains of cause & effect are long and dubiously linked, and that the effort to match sunspot curves with indices of human activity -without taking into consideration hundreds of other factors-must necessarily be far from conclusive. But he feels that the evidence for sunspot influence is too good and too stimulating to be thrown out of court. "Definite investigations," he concludes, "should ultimately make it possible to substantiate or amend these statements. Some of them doubtless will be amended. I cannot but believe that accumulating evidence will show many of them valid. Ratification rests...
That nothing matters, that human life is caught...