Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shoguns retains a point of view at once smartly cosmopolitan and yet fundamentally Oriental. To a fellow tycoon of London he has dreamily and devastatingly remarked: "I have walked for an hour through your great city, this morning, without once seeing a flower in the hand of a human being...
...purpose of argument is after all to convince. School and college debates are prone to regard their exercise as an esoteric thing, entirely divorced from human conversation and understanding. This attitude leads to marshaling of facts and fancy, into an array which is presented in a fashion calculated only to get it all out on time. The new necessity to convince a body of intelligent fellow-beings whose sentiments have been sound already will lead inevitably toward a more careful preparation of briefs with special at tention to those qualities which make argument at once convincing and good to hear...
Norman Douglas lives in Africa, Capri, Florence. He loves human converse, hates fatuous human conventions. Contemptuous of modern standards of morality, he promises little boys a penny to be "bad," a thrashing for being "good." Among his friends have been Conrad, Henry James, and Scott Moncrieff, brilliant translator of Marcel Proust...
...week President Coolidge brought out one important point which is frequently overlooked in many of the perennial discussions of the American educational system. That is that the principle of education for all, not long ago the guiding star of its development in this country, is still very young as human institutions go. At the time Andover was founded there was no provision for public education beyond what the scattered high schools could provide; for the colleges were very restricted in membership and mainly intended for theological students. By offering many of the advantages of a college without its exclusiveness...
...essence of Hardy's philosophy is the apparent helplessness of mankind. It appears in the poetry, as in the prose, with a sense of human impotency. This view of life is not useful; it may even be dangerous--for it leaves one "with a sense of groping in thick darkness, with a very indefinite light in the distance, if there is any light at all." But despite this depression, Hardy's themes and his style of treatment possess that universal quality which assures him a lasting place among the immortals...