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...Catholic means universal," the Pope said: "We regard racism and exaggerated nationalism as barriers raised between man and man, between people and people, between nation and nation. ... All men are, above all, members of the same great kind. They all belong to the single great family of the living. Humankind is therefore a single, universal catholic race." Added Pius XI: "One wonders why Italy should have needed to imitate Germany so unfortunately...
...dental school in 1913, Dr. Hartman interrupted private practice in Seattle to go to war. On his return be assailed dental pain. Now ready for general use, his "desensitizer" will be made available to the unmonied through patent control by Columbia University. In the gallery of benefactors of humankind, Northwestern's and Columbia's Dr. Hartman's portrait will look out with a bluff twinkle that for once does not give the dentist's false assurance...
...that she hated her enemies more than she hated needless human slaughter. Similarly when redbaiters, more fanatical than any red, forget that they are first men, and that only second are they Liberal, Conservative, Red, Republican, or Democrat, then those immoderate haters only show the shallowness of their own humankind-ness...
...General Sherman had coined the phrase, the U. S. never grasped the fact that war is hell, thought (under advice) the Germans must be hellions. "Innumerable sensible Americans were . . . genuinely, seriously convinced that Germans were a peculiarly fiendish and brutal race, quite beyond the pale oi ordinary humankind...
...stupid Radcliffe lass or a Bohemian Wellesleyian. What tragedy and grief to find the Guide had erred. His weighty problem still unsolved where can he turn for guidance and initiation? The dank silence of his lonely room give forth no answer and his brooding only lessens his faith in humankind. Most miserable is he who finds all women unclassifiable and all colleges a pot-pourri of femininity...