Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...presents rather the difficulties in the way of answering the question,--"Has mankind on the whole advanced?"--than any actual definition or answer. Mr. Bryce points out that material progress, which is obvious and easy to determine, by no means involves intellectual and moral progress. The sum of human happiness, which ought to be a certain index of progress, cannot possibly be measured, either as to quantity or quality. The conclusion, as stated by Mr. Bryce in his final paragraph, is scarcely gratifying to the generally cock-sure twentieth century optimist. "The bark that carries man and his fortunes traverses...
...Murray first showed the significance of the word "logos," or man's words, which in early times contained practically the sum of human knowledge. In those days when a book was written it was considered the property of the author; it was to be kept from the public and especially from the professional writer. All things that were worth being recorded were termed "grammata" by the Greeks and the writer was a "grammaticos." As a book was intended solely for the author it was written in a form that was practically impossible for another man to decipher. Hence arose...
...indications prove that the "Iliad" was considerably expurgated, whereas the "Odyssey" underwent a less stringent process of revision. Although all the early myths point to many barbarous practices among the ancient Greeks, we see slight traces of them in the "Iliad." The poem is practically free from pictures of human sacrifice or torture, whereas in the "Odyssey" we have one situation very nearly approaching torture...
...spirit of the "Iliad" is not savage, but essentially chivalrous. The spirit in which it is written is too human to permit torture and practically the only instance we have of human sacrifice is when Achilles slays the twelve Trojan youths over the body of Hector. This, however, is passed over hurriedly, and Achilles still remains a noble hero, and the "Iliad" the book of heroes...
...burlesque. One is glad that the two college types suggested in the number are at least unobtrusive, if indeed they exist at all. The "Non-Conformer" in the third paper of Varied Outlooks by A. Davis 1L., in his self-sufficiency and in his arrogance of difference from ordinary human beings, is only less deformed than the unfortunate youth in "The Reckoning," by C. W. Wickersham 1L., who, having made an ass of himself generally, took "a queer shaped object" from his table drawer and "looked steadily down into the black muzzle" as the memorial clock "counted slowly, Ding, Dong...