Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pope Pius XI said explicitly in his encyclical, Quadragesima Anno: "Just as the unity of human society cannot be founded on an opposition of classes, so also the right ordering of economic life cannot be left to a free competition of forces. For from this source, as from a poisoned spring, have originated and spread all the errors of individualistic economic teaching. . . . Free competition . . . clearly cannot direct economic life...
...this staggering effort Huntington was not wholly successful (no one man could know enough). Many of his theories and observations are hotly contested by equally erudite scholars. But his book has a human aliveness very rare in the social sciences...
...directly below him. While the 1938 hurricane was shredding the elms and overturning New Haven's trolley cars, Professor Huntington worked away on a manuscript; he did not realize what was going on until it was all over. The experience buttressed one of his favorite theories: that the human intellect works best in a changeable, stimulating climate. The professor, 71, an authority on practically everything concerning the human species, died last week...
Rape & Non-Fiction. In his younger days, Huntington ranged all over the world-to the Near East, Latin America, Chinese Turkestan-always compounding generalizations to explain why human beings, provoked by weather and geography, behave as they do. He kept an eye open for such relevant material as the relation of rape to the seasons (highest in June); the proportion of non-fiction lent by U.S. public libraries (lowest in the South); the relation of climate to monotheism (it does best in deserts...
After a lifetime of accumulating such data, Huntington wrote a book entitled Mainsprings of Civilization, which is probably the top mark (with the exception of Arnold J. Toynbee's work) for high, wide & handsome thinking about human affairs. The book began with a declared objective that would drive most cautious scholars scurrying into their catacombs: "To analyze the role of biological inheritance and physical environment in influencing the course of history...