Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present it seems to me that those who are for giving to natural knowledge, as they call it, the chief place in the education of the majority of mankind, leave one important thing out of their account-the constitution of human nature. But I put this forward on the strength of some facts not at all recondite, very far from it, facts capable of being stated in the simplest possible fashion, and to which, if I so state them, the man of science will, I am sure, be willing to allow their due weight...
...Pennsylvania is now to learn that the prime reason why Harvard cannot row the race proposed in May, is because her men do not get in training soon enough to do themselves justice in a race at so early a date. Another and even more strenuous reason is, that human endurance cannot stand the terrific strain of three races so close together as it would necessitate. Any oarsman will perceive at once the justice of Harvard's decision. No set of men can be trained so fine as a four-mile race requires, and be kept so for a month...
...real basis of morals is insight into the reality of human life as life. This insight implies the determination to treat human life as real. And this insight is not mere emotion, but calm determination...
...realize human life? As a mass of single separate experiences, as a heap of happiness or misery, to be estimated by addition? No; for in this fashion life would not be rationally realized at all. To determine to treat the whole of life as real, implies for a rational being the determination to treat it as having organic unity, or at all events to try to bring it into such unity-to exemplify. When we estimate our own lives, or any part of them, we do so by treating the experiences in question...
...routine of any calling by which money may be earned in it, but something outside of the knowledge by which a man gets his living and additional to that knowledge. We mean what it is desirable that a man should know in the interest of his dignity as a human being, or, to use the good old word, we mean "the humanities." This knowledge we suppose to be certified by the degree of Bachelor of Arts. "An early differentiation of studies" implies that the outfit of educated men is not to be the same, but is to be adjusted...