Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convinced that it is never right to settle any policy simply out of fear of the consequences . . . For all I know it is within the providence of God that the human race should destroy itself in this manner [nuclear...
...today expects the church-Methodist or other-to say or do anything vital or relevant to human well-being?" asked retiring Methodist President Harold Roberts. Methodism appeared to outsiders to be "irrelevant in the contemporary situation," declared former President Donald Soper amid halfhearted cries of "No, No!" Insisted Soper: "I do not believe with the fervor I had 20 years ago that there is any permanence in the Methodist Church as a separate institution. Are we not seeing with the insight of a century a process which is inexorable...
...There is no evidence that the human race is to last forever and plenty in Scripture to the contrary effect. Though, as you say, the suffering entailed by nuclear war would be ghastly in its scale, one must remember that each person can only suffer so much; and I do not know that the men and women affected would suffer more than those do who day by day are involved in some appalling disaster. There is no aggregate measure of pain. Anyhow, policy must not be based simply on fear of pain...
...being unfeeling. Christ in His Crucifixion showed us how to suffer creatively. He did not claim to end suffering, nor did He bid His disciples to avoid suffering. So I repeat, I cannot establish any policy merely on whether or not it will save the human race from a period of suffering or from extinction...
...There is a prevalent cliche that writers like James, who concerned themselves deeply over this method, have less to say than the ravenous Wolfes of this world. May I suggest to Mr. Leonard that a sympathetic reading of Wings of the Dove would reveal to him much more about Human Nature, Morality, the Structure of Society, Psychology, and such like than the whole Wolfe corpus.... --Arnold M. Goldman...