Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...contents, the latest Advocate is creditable but not remarkable. Once at least it ought to have been more carefully edited; the indefensible use of human in the sense of "human being" is allowed to stand in the first story-- a fault the more conspicuous, because the idiomatic phrase, "neither man nor beast" would so naturally occur to one in place of the ugly "neither beast nor human." But in general, the paper, both in its prose and its verse, shows the right feeling for style. If the authors had more to say than they have here, evidently they would know...
That the United States of America, in fidelity to their traditions and the principles of human freedom which they represent, of right and and in duty ought to be, from now henceforward, in active and loyal co-operation with the nations leaged against the common enemy, and that the military, naval, industrial, and financial resources of the people of the United States of America should be promptly and vigorously organized, mobilized, and used to that...
...Either a man is much more than a livelihood earner or he might as well be dead. Beyond getting his living a man must live his life. He must be a citizen and a human being...
...This means, first of all, that he must have some human sense, some insight into his fellow-men and some grasp on all those processes whereby our complex society is carried on. He must know history, politics, economics. He must be sensitive to civic and economic wrong. He must feel the drive of our common life forward toward better institutions and relations...
...means, too, that he must have some part in the spiritual commonwealth for which all else is little but a scaffolding. This does not mean that a knowledge of Latin declensions is a natural right. But it does mean that each human being should have some means of expression, some way of inviting his soul. Many different arts and crafts and sports may furnish these means. Any system of education which leaves them out is narrow and pedantic. Such a system must fail just as the so-called classical education has failed...