Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...question then arises, is this the necessary law of human progress? Many things go to show that it is not. Not only better results, but better methods may be gradually evolved by the law of evolution itself. The whole question is one of price. The development of the race is to go on. The question is what price shall...
...each of these points some good illustration or story. Even a little humor at times is good, but be careful how you use it. While you are making the acquaintance of your audience it is well to say something that will make them feel that you are human...
...strenuous plea is made in behalf of sentiment. That is all very well in itself. We all want to keep up the sentiments and traditions of Harvard as far as possible. But where a traditional practice is harmful, sentiment must yield. Human slavery was once a time-honored custom; but an enlightened generation abolished it. Hazing in American colleges was once a time honored custom; but, of late, it has been almost completely suppressed. So the argument for sentiment amounts to nothing if it can be shown that the custom is a bad one. Nor is it any argument...
...request of the Boston local council of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, Dr. Clarence J. Blake will deliver an address, open to men only, on "The Use and Abuse of the Human Body," on Thursday, January 21, 1897, at 8 p. m., in Trinity Chapel, Trinity Church, Boston...
Many tribes of Indians solved the difficulty of invention by simply thinking of the Great Spirit. In this way they thought they received directly from him inspirations to discover things. Among the Polynesians, all human inventions originated from the other world. Thus female cloth-beating came from a she-demon who beat the souls of the dead; the art of war was learned from the rebel spirits. Among many primitive peoples, all methods of transportation were supposed to be taken from restless shades who travelled back and forth from one world to the other...