Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...such a time as this it behooves every one of us to find the way to some active support of our cause. This war has come to mean force until life seems a hell on earth and all human relations appear unbearable. To consider its all embracing terror is to shudder. To find one's proper place in its cauldron of sacrifice and suffering is to find life and death worth experiencing. The whole world is a flaming building which we must extinguish. It calls, as nothing in history has called, for the aid of every available person who believes...
...support of a united nation, it points equally as well to the course of the future. The coming months, perhaps years, will see increasing burden upon our shoulders. England and France are turning more and more to America for the hope of final victory. In these days, therefore, when human destiny lies in the balance, we must turn our eyes to the enormity of our obligations. Where before they have been met with our material wealth, they must now be faced with the lives of our fellow men. The end is remote, perhaps scarcely evident, yet in its reality...
...however, there is always an obligation. In this case hard work for the remaining weeks is in order. Not that peor and sloppy work will bring a man the deserts of the blessed--the failure of the fraction will count as the failure of the whole. But a real human being enjoys paying for a privilege by coming up to expectations. The College expects that those favored by its new scheme will study seriously and seek to get the most out of the short time left. It is but fair and just that the College be fully satisfied and thus...
...acquired training. The former are beyond our power to change; the latter demands our immediate attention. In all the instances I have given above, the motive of the action was openly selfish and materialistic: private gain or personal comfort was the end desired. This materialistic motive pervades all human society at the present time; it lies at the heart of the social problem. Unfortunately, the evil is a difficult one to remedy; an easier and more effective method is to prevent it. Does Mr. Lazarus think this can be done by recognizing and encouraging in our system of education...
...thought is neither more nor less than a call to take a sensible middle course. Spiritual development of personality must depend on material opportunities; and therefore we should recognize, as a sine qua non for a progressive human being, a frank striving for money--and the time and things it can buy. And the goal of the terrestrial experiment seems to be the progress of the group as a group, even if for no other purpose than to shelter the specimens; and therefore the aim of life outside the ego should be, not service or sacrifice or any such personal...