Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...material of the course is officially listed as "Human Evolution", and covers the descent of man and his distribution over the earth's surface. There is no doubt that Professor Hooton is a very eminent anthropologist, but when taking the course one cannot help having the feeling that he is not particularly interested in the work in question. With this attitude in evidence on the professorial side, a show of wild enthusiasm on the part of the members of the course is hardly to be expected. In short, it is a half course covering what could be a distinctly interesting...
...manufactured by the press, the wise say that the fostering of an international spirit must be a gradual affair. The more foolish say that fighting is a natural instinct. But that the permanent peace which the world must have and the strong nationalism which has universal dominion over the human imagination are in complete opposition to one another and that one of them must be abandoned, diplomats either do not see or else do not care...
...interview was given to Editor Alfred Human of Singing...
Cowpox and smallpox are intimately related. Pus taken from a human smallpox sore and innoculated into a cow gives the beast cowpox. The cow's system reduces the virility of the smallpox germs. Pus from a cowpox sore in turn, through vaccination, makes humans resistant to smallpox; it makes them immune. The three New York victims, by milking their infected cows, vaccinated themselves unwittingly. Previously they had not been vaccinated in the ordinary way. Had they been, they probably would not have contracted the cowpox...
...histories with the sound of loud horns. In the annals of Tacitus and those of medieval chroniclers, these men are present; their frail lusts and meagre rascality grown enormous through the grandeur of the empire which they destroyed. In writing about them, it is hard to make them merely human; some aura of the supernatural clings to the absurd magnificence of their palaces and their crimes. Now the wildest of them all, Nero, the Bloody Poet, is imagined not by a historian but by a novelist. Author Kostolanyi, a Hungarian who writes in German, well translated by Clifton P. Fadiman...