Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goal of Human Endeavor...
...true religions have taught that the life of contemplation, i.e., of the saints and mystics, is above the life of action as well as the life of pleasure. And, as Toynbee says in Vol. 3 of his Study of History: "The goal of human endeavours . . . will only be attained when the whole of Society has come to exist of individuals of the new species which is represented by the Saints alone in human history up to date...
...School here for 20 years, Professor Pound gained his reputation for the philosophy of "sociological jurisprudence" which he conceived and pioneered Law was for him no pattern of rules. His new attitude, now firmly established in legal thinking, viewed the law as "a way of living together by actual human beings...
...crimes that have been committed in the name of religion, one of the most glaring is the Hindu doctrine of "untouchability." For centuries, some 40 million human beings, thought by ordinary Hindus to be expiating the sinfulness of former lives, have been barred from all contact with members of so-called upper castes. In some areas, untouchables were even forced to give warning of their contaminating approach along the road. Last week India's Constituent Assembly took a step (still to be implemented) that Congress Party leaders and Indian Christians have long campaigned for: it passed a resolution officially...
...been run without checking; and it just wasn't so. Caen promised to continue "Writing the Wrongs" once a month. "In the course of hacking together 20 or 25 items a day," he explained to his readers, "I'm sometimes . . . wrong. If that makes me almost human, I apologize...