Word: human
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With less culinary than mathematical skill, the researchers could not make the stuff into a palatable meal. Even a laboratory dog was reluctant to put the mess away. The only conclusion: a computer could live cheaper than a human because it has no taste buds...
...past. This "belief-system, framework of values, ideology, call it what you will," said Huxley, will have "no need or room for the supernatural." It will be evolutionary, because "the earth was not created, it evolved. So did all the animals and plants that inhabit it, including our human selves, mind and soul as well as brain and body...
Refuge & Umbrella. Religions, said Scientist Huxley, are "organs of psychosocial man, concerned with human destiny and with experiences of sacredness and transcendence." They are "organizations of human thought" for coping with the difficult world, serving as a refuge from loneliness or an "umbrella of divine authority" against the responsibility of personal decisions. But "religion is not necessarily a good thing. It was not a good thing when the Hindu I read about this spring killed his son as a religious sacrifice. It is not a good thing that religious pressure has made it illegal to teach evolution in Tennessee, because...
...should be able to define our sense of right and wrong more clearly, so as to provide a better moral support, and to focus the feeling of sacredness on fitter objects, instead of worshiping supernatural rulers. It will sanctify the higher manifestations of human nature in art and love, in intellectual comprehension and aspiring adoration, and will emphasize the fuller realization of life's possibilities as a sacred trust...
...justice, human kindness and charity forever fill this house. Let these virtues be a pledge of prosperity and happiness for all who come therein, either for giving or for receiving. And that, giving or receiving a few francs, they be judged worthy in return of obtaining the imperishable and eternal riches of thy everlasting kingdom. Amen...