Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...impulses to evil would be restrained not a little by successful socialism, but in the operation many impulses to do good would also be checked. Socialism would necessitate a different human nature, one in which compulsion would not be necessary to keep all men to their work, and in which personal ambition need not be considered...
Scorn expresses itself against religion, morality, love, against all the greats facts of human life; but the scorn of religion is the worst form. This scorn is often the first stage of sin in the young man. He sits on a lofty seat and surveys the religious views of those about him first with doubt, then with contempt. In this process he soon hardens his conscience and then temptations find him an easy prey. There is also a scorn of ungodliness. There are men who sneer at the evils of their time, who vent their sarcasm on the wrong which...
Paul had a knowledge which we cannot find today among men. In knowing Christ he was not narrow; he knew God, he knew more of human nature than any one of us, his knowledge of ethics was greater than that of any man before him and he knew more of the life eternal, and all this from his study of Christ. From the crucifixion he learned the great truths of self-denial and self renunciation...
...never alone. Human life is begun in society, in a social group, of at least three, the father, mother, and the child itself, and as it grows, its group broadens, and its absorption of outside influences increases, till isolation is absolutely impossible...
...analogy between him and the social body must be limited. Hobbs, however, states the very opposite. He declares that the social life is entirely artificial, that the natural state is one of isolation; a commonwealth makes an artificial man. But this commonwealth must surely be the inevitable condition of human life; the natural man of Hobbs would only have the desolate freedom of a wild ass. So man stands by his very nature in the midst of a social condition, and it is his best course to adjust himself to it, not to try to escape it. His right conduct...