Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...from his followers; he rather wished to put them in a position to know the true relations between earthly possessions and spiritual life. As Copernicus was the first to consider the sun the centre of the universe, so Christ put God in the centre of the great universe of human life...
...USEFUL little book which should be in the hands of the members of every intelligent household is "The Human Foot and the Art of Shoeing," by Dr. Samuel Appleton, author of "The Hygiene of the Foot." It contains a vast amount of practical common sense compressed into a comparatively brief space, and the advice it gives, in the clearest and most coherent manner, is invaluable. The explanation of the structure of the foot, with accompanying cuts, must convince any unprejudiced person that the present method of making shoes is, in a great majority of cases, foolish, injurious and destructive...
...USEFUL little book which should be in the hands of the members of every intelligent household is "The Human Foot and the Art of Shoeing," by Dr. Samuel Appleton, author of "The Hygiene of the Foot." It contains a vast amount of practical common sense compressed into a comparatively brief space, and the advice it gives, in the clearest and most coherent manner, is invaluable. The explanation of the structure of the foot, with accompanying cuts, must convince any unprejudiced person that the present method of making shoes is, in a great majority of cases, foolish, injurious and destructive...
Another quality is the poverty and the pettiness of all human life. We see a mass of objects, not men. Every person is but a passing shadow, one of many similar shadows cast by similar persons. Men die by thousands, but are not mourned by the mass. Their places as objects merely become vacant to be at once and silently filled by others. The death of the venerable elm on the common causes more general sorrow than the little child crushed beneath its falling branch...
...ships even now is a more important industry than shipbuilding: The Question of Ships, 30.- (1) Over fifty times as much wages paid to sailors as to shipbuilders' operatives: Ibid. (d) In case of war we have no vessels for transports, a lack of which cost untold treasure and human life in the civil...