Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gains made to medical science. Our knowledge of the circulation of the blood and many other of the foundation stones of medical learning are due to the practice of vivisection. It is humanitarian, for by the sacrifice of the lower animals almost without pain the greatest benefits for the human race are obtained...
...known. Davis' idea was to put his men into a boat in haphazard style and tell them to pull just as hard as they could. No attention whatever was paid to the position of the body. Physical power was the sole object looked for. His principle was that the human system does not tire. If the men had been engines instead of human beings, Davis's principle would have been a great success...
...adapted to American habits of life. I think that a higher view should be taken of the question, and that college training should not be adapted to fit a man for any particular vocation. Its object is to give to man the key to that higher life of the human mind which is common to all ages and all nations. [Geo. Wm. Curtis...
Deny the facts altogether, I think, he hardly can. He can hardly deny, that when we set ourselves to enumerate the powers which go to the building up of human life, and say that they are the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty, and the power of social life and manners-he can hardly deny that this scheme, though drawn in rough and plain lines and not pretending to scientific exactness, does yet give a fairly true representation of the matter. Human nature is built up by these powers; we have the need...
...French or German? Nay, 'has not a man of English speech models in his own literature of every kind of excellence?' As before, it is not on any weak pleadings of my own that I rely for convincing the gain-sayers; it is on the constitution of human nature itself, and on the instinct of self-preservation in humanity. The instinct for beauty is set in human nature, as surely as the instinct for knowledge is set there, or the instinct for conduct, or the instinct for society. If the instinct for beauty is served by Greek literature...