Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says in my copy of TIME that Jacques Maritain, at the M.I.T. convocation, looked for "the basis for a moral order in a process of reason about the essences of God, man, and things [TIME, April 11]," while Walter Stace looked to "the psychological laws of human behavior"-and yet that Stace is the "wooly-minded...
...think that any of us knows anything about the final mystery of the world, but if anyone pleases to call it God, I have no objection. The sentence quoted means that I do not think we have any reason anthropomorphically to attribute to it such human characteristics as spirituality, value-consciousness, or friendship...
...that it suggests I want to invent a "new" morality. On the contrary, it is the old morality, the morality of Jesus Christ, that I believe is the sole possible salvation of the world. But I think that it can be given a basis in the laws of human personality...
...reviewer has no sense of humor at all, and if he like only a few selected domesticated dogs and horses, and finds uniquely unappealing the sight of an elephant carrying with its trunk another elephant's tail, he at least responds like all normal American children to such marvelous human beings as Francis Brunn, Unus, and Harold Alana...
...statement to the CRIMSON on March 15, 1948, Professor Mather stated that he had "hoped for expansion rather than contraction" in the University's Geography staff and termed Human Geography "one of the most significant fields for study in modern life...