Word: humanies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Titled, like all such letters, from its first two Latin words, Humani Generis (Of Mankind), the encyclical cracked down hard on Roman Catholic teachers, priests and philosophers who for various reasons are drifting away from the dogmas of the church and the orthodox system of thought laid down by St. Thomas Aquinas. It is a mistake, wrote Pius, to think that there is the same room for discussion of theological matters today as there was earlier in the church's history...
...delivered by Dr. Charles O'Malley, was titled The Life and Times of Andreas Vesalius, the medieval anatomist (1514-64) who was one of the foremost grave robbers of his day. In 1543, at the age of 28, he shocked the scientific world with his great work, De Humani Carporis Fabrica, which detailed the construction of the human body and scornfully exploded some superstitions...