Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first place, then, What is it to give up sentiment? Religion, held by some writers to be of first importance, will lose much of its hold on human nature. The Mahometan and the Puritan, it is true, would be little affected, but those large portions of what is known as the Christian world, who build much upon ritual and the reverence due to antiquity, will suffer grievously, - a fact which deserves to be considered by all sentiment-destroyers. We must lose, too, or rather throw away, as useless and not money-making, that large part of history which teaches...
That passion every human shares...
...work. The foundations on which it is built lie far back in the mist of ages, and speculation, to a certain extent, is the guide to our results. It is therefore interesting to find among our modern tongues a family of languages whose origin, growth, and development lie within human observation, even within the records of the past two thousand years...
...notice of the Faculty: "If any building or buildings under the care of a corporation or other large body, and used as human habitation, are, by the neglect of such corporation or body, insufficiently lighted or otherwise cared for, such that at any time any person shall, in entering or traversing the said buildings, maim, or otherwise injure himself, the corporation shall be held responsible and liable to all damages thereby accruing," - Gen. Stat. Com. Mass...
There those grand old trees have stood for nearly a century and a half! Through the years which witnessed the struggle for emancipation from the tyranny of the mother country, the war of 1812, and, lastly, the great fight for the equal rights of the whole human race, the elms by the Granary Burying-Ground have continued to increase in beauty and strength, until they have come to be to many of us a much-loved memorial of our forefathers and their times; and in their gnarled trunks, as in the furrows of an aged warrior's face, we seem...