Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tragedy] underlines the truth that human hopes must measure themselves against unfeeling necessity . . . Tragic wisdom is the knowledge of evil . . . By purging man of the original sin of self-sufficiency, tragedy makes him sociable and compassionate . . so that he can love without craving, strive without fretfulness, rise to success without falling into pride, fail without losing heart...
Special Bodies. "By very drastic eugenical operation on the existing human form," suggested Dr. Stapledon, "it might be possible to enable the present human brain to be supported, in spite of excessive gravitation, by throwing man into the quadruped position, greatly strengthening the four legs, and at the same time pushing the head far backwards so as to distribute its weight evenly between the fore and hind legs. But what of the problem of providing hands? . . . My only suggestion is that the nose might be greatly elongated into a trunk equipped with delicate grasping instruments like fingers. It would probably...
...thinks Dr. Stapledon, might bring about earthwide luxury and ease. But the effort should not be made, said Dr. Stapledon (who, for a scientist, is something of a moralist*); from such low motives. The only respectable and sufficient motive would be to stimulate and diversify the growth of the human spirit. The hardy, high-stepping Martians, the heat-resistant Venerians, the squat, four-legged Jovians and Saturnians with their triple proboscises-all would contribute, Dr. Stapledon thinks, to the spiritual growth of the U.S.S. (United Solar System...
Washington Monument. Said Biographer Freeman, in Richmond, where he is at work on Volume III: "Washington did not himself climb up on a marble pedestal, strike a pose and stay there. What we're goin' to do, please God, is to make him a human bein'. The great big thing stamped across that man is character...
Will Freeman's rescue party succeed? On the evidence so far, the answer must be a qualified yes. He has made Washington human, in the sense that he displays human feelings, but he has not-in the first two volumes, at least-made of George Washington a more lovable figure for popular consumption. Readers of the seven thick volumes on Lee and his generals know that Freeman is not a portrait painter who gets his effect with quick, inspired strokes; his method is careful and cumulative. His works are what book reviewers are apt to call monumental, and monumental...