Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a keen eye for historical detail, Mr. Thaddeus presents the many-sided Voltaire, the man who walked with kings; who languished in the Bastille; who was an idol of the salons; who was a liar and forger, yet who risked his shrivelled body and his immortal soul for human liberty...
...civilization through the media of philosophy, art, mathematics and physics. The second volume considers its development in the different forms of religion, law, politics, economics, language, race, cults and classes. Fear love and faith are all taken into account in this analysis of the world and of the human soul...
...Secretary's experience aroused no bitterness. In his writings on the peace negotiations he analyzed President Wilson with the lucidity, penetration, impartiality of a psychologist. He testified to an understanding, a sense of human tragedy which transcended the personal equation. Last week he died of heart disease in Washington...
...Administrator for administrator, he is at least the equal of Mr. Hoover, and his extraordinary administrative abilities are as much controlled by a human sense of his fellow beings as Mr. Hoover's are by a hard 'efficiency' which works out to strengthen the position of just those economic interests that most need weakening instead of strengthening. I can hardly think of any insincerity greater, whether it is calculated or unconscious, than is involved in the attempt to 'sell' Mr. Hoover to the women of the country as a great humanitarian. That...
...daughter (not the one he had suspected) ran off with the laborite, and the other discovered an unexpected admirer. The discovery, and the confusion of identities smacks of threadbare "literary device," but Mr. Swinnerton (author of Nocturne, The Elder Sister) never fails in charm of atmosphere, virtuosity of human converse...