Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...glass as thick as a piece of paper absorbs a large number of rays and throws a very thick shadow on the plate while even a thick piece of wood throws hardly any shadow. The shadow photograph, however, is very exact in other respects. In the photograph of the human hand it shows the gradations of the absorption of the rays with the thickness of the bones...
...Human character may be classed in two main phases; it is at once an effect and a cause. Looking to the past and to the future, character moulds itself partly into conservatism and partly into progress. As Emerson says, each of the two makes a good half but a poor whole. On the one hand excessive conservatism is a mere negation; on the other, excessive radicalism recklessly destroys the virtue of healthly discipline and blots out the good of the past with its bad. The one maintains established evil; the other destroys established good...
...cannot read him now, said Mr. Copeland, except for the lives of the poets, the vanity of human wishes, and a very few other things; but we love to read about him-indeed, we can never read enough-and we see and remember him as we remember only two other men in the long line of English writers, Swift and Carlyle...
...miracle, and it was to contemplate this phenomenon that this lecture goes back to the early ages. How was it possible that such a result should be attained? Why should so large an amount of labor have been put into this form of wealth, when the conditions of human existence were so strait and painful? Why, when bread was scarce almost to the point of famine, should men have dug for gold...
Precisely similar were the terms on which millions of men labored through centuries to ple up the Persian treasures. It would be mockery to apply the word "industry" to the gold mining of the early ages. Every ounce of gold represented a human life...