Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years (1920-26), Dr. Simon was a New York City deputy police commissioner. Later he had a laboratory on the Bowery for psychiatric examination of Manhattan's human flotsam. The eye-pattern idea was suggested to him by Dr. Isadore Goldstein, ophthalmologist of Mount Sinai Hospital, who in working out the system took care of the anatomical angle. Drs. Simon and Goldstein were joined by a small grey man named Allan Broms, an expert handler of charts and graphs...
...white travelers followed them. In the early 16th Century one King of Benin ordered his whole nation converted to Christianity in exchange for a white wife, provided by Portuguese missionaries. The conversion was short-lived, though later generations of the Bini adopted wholeheartedly the custom of crucifying their human sacrifices. By 1896 Britain had already established control of the coast of Nigeria, was eager to trade with forbidden Benin in the interior. Acting Consul General Phillips, eager to hurry matters, sent a message to grinning black King Overami of Benin, asking permission to visit his capital, arrange a treaty. With...
...Society's action in seeking a suitable, workable plan is commendable. When world peace and cooperation is so unquestionably the most suitable background for human happiness, humanitarians throughout the world will support and extend any intelligent plan which works toward this ultimate goal. For the production of a symphony, $5000 is a poor price indeed...
...result of this interest he established a foundation on his seventieth birthday in 1929, endowing it with $1,100,000, the income and capital of which was to be used without restriction "to enlarge the realms of human knowledge, to promote the general, moral, mental, and physical improvement of society so that the sum total of human welfare and wisdom may be increased and the cause of better understanding among all mankind promoted...
...this point. He studies Rousseau's influence on modern concepts of beauty, on modern ideals of human love, modern political theories, eventually concludes: "Rousseau stood, in opposition to our artificial and inharmonious civilisation, for the worth of life as a whole, the simple undivided rights of life, the rights of instinct, the rights of emotion. . . . This was the way in which he renovated life, and effected a spiritual revolution which no mere man of letters has ever effected. ... He is the supreme individualist, and yet his doctrines furnish the foundations for socialism, even in its oppressive forms...