Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hardly needs to call attention, he said, to the importance of the subject of immortality. It has a touch of humanity about it that must awaken our sympathy. In this course the roots of belief in the soul will be investigated, not through modern psychology but through the early experience of the human race...
...have long ago lost my sight, but I love to sit here and recall it, and think that it is all there." It lies in our own choice with what pictures we may fill our minds, whether our inward eye shall command noble prospects over the whole domain of human thoughts, or shall be bounded by the narrow alley of a merely utilitarian training...
...inhabitants of the northwestern section along the Pacific were the Aleuts and the western Esquimaux. They are characterized by their carvings of bone, ivory and stone, in which there is often a singular combination of human heads and animal bodies. They had no pottery and used instead vessels of wood, stone or basket work...
...become a monk in India it is necessary to loose all thought of the body; to look upon other human beings as souls...
Professor Royce has in the May Century a paper on "The Imitative Functions and Their Place in Human Nature," in which he sets forth the fascinating interest of his subject and calls for the help of the public in furnishing data for a more complete study...