Word: human
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...Human culture might be described a as state of perpetual and not necessarily related crises. We must not assume, for example that since there is a deep seated crisis in economics that there is also one in religion...
Wellock, who is here from England on a nation-wide speaking tour, has lived in India, and while in Parliament was a member of the Select Committee for the Government of East Africa. He is the author of "Mechanistic or Human Society," "Which Way Britain?," and other books...
Harvard's Higginson Professor of History, one of the country's leading chroniclers of its social and cultural growth, has east 75 pages of light on a fascinating phase of American striving: the etiquette book. Maintaining that "nothing that concerns human beings can fail to concern the historian," Mr. Schlesiner's Introduction dignifies the quest of good manners as "one aspect of the common man's struggle to achieve a larger degree of human dignity." Statements like these lead the reader to expect a thorough study of manners literature, its relation to and effect on American mores and ideals. What...
...student comes to college with little or no knowledge of the Bible or of theology. He is, oftentimes in his first few weeks, required to grapple with the major issues of human existence-he may be plunged into the world of St. Augustine, Grace & Freedom, or into the Reformation, or the ancient tragedies, or medieval economic life-and all this with no more than a kindergarten child's knowledge of the great words and concepts of religion. It is no wonder that history remains a riddle to the ordinary student, and philosophy a dull and mysterious irrelevance...
...useless if it is fettered by archaic habits of thought." But he raised a point which had already bothered the committee, "the hazards to the individual of being singled out as an outstandingly able person," and added a personal misgiving: "whether a roster of elite human beings . . . is wholesome and wise from a democratic point of view...