Word: humanity
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City. Where the Kaw River empties into the Missouri and the Missouri starts an eastern sweep to get on over and join the Mississippi, is the bottom of a great basin and a natural site for human habitation. They say you could give a freight car a shove anywhere within 300 miles of where the rivers meet (except eastward) and it would coast down to the Kansas Cities. Of these there are two. a small one in Kansas, a larger one (383,100 population) across the Kaw in Missouri. They are "the gates to the Southwest," "the continent...
...resolve after weeks of vacillation to reinforce Fort Sumter was a confession of bankruptcy in statesmanship, which is concerned with the preservation of human values and not the destruction of them. After that decision, force of the mass, and not skill of the individual, was called to the settlement of questions, and the North having the superior power won the war, as it would doubtless have done under any President. But how near Lincoln came to losing the war is shown by his saying that without the aid of the Negro troops taken from the South's own population...
...came the rude, germinal, quickening call of the Midlands. He grew up to teach philosophy in the universities of Michigan (1884-88), Minnesota (1888-89), Michigan (1889-94) and Chicago (1894-1904). There the pragmatism?the "practicality" ? of his philosophy was nurtured on a basically pragmatic human soil. Dewey, more than anyone else, may be justly called the Philosopher of the American continent. With characteristic "practicality" he has declared:* "Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with problems...
...absolutely against liquor because I do not feel it helps the human body. I am glad to tell you that I am past 50 and feel as well now as I did at 18. That comes from not drinking, not carousing, and getting a good night's rest...
...offender by the scientific investigation of the mental, environmental and physical antecedents which might have led up to the anti-social act." Judge Ben Lindsey, and less interviewed magistrates, have proved such procedure practicable. And there is in the adult criminal enough mutability to make the use of human and scientific understanding in the handling of him no longer a something not to be postponed...