Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...powerful institution. I know there is nothing better for me to bespeak for Harvard University in behalf of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, than that all her sons in the coming time, standing on the vantage ground already gained, shall make their lives as honorable, as conspicuous and beneficent to mankind as those who laid the foundations here, in devotion to learning and pure religion, to sound morals and to upright statesmanship...
Prof. Trelease closed his lecture by saying that however the subject of botany was considered, either as the result of a direct order of the Creator, or that of slow growth and self development, it was worthy of the greatest attention and study of mankind...
...feeling possible, it is necessary to use some traditional form of prayers, the older and more universal, the better. Thus each may feel that his prayer is the prayer of all; that it is not a selfish wish or capricious will that he utters, but the cry of all mankind. By using a ritual service of this sort, we may help to bring back this sense of the authority and sublimity of religion. We may be brought to feel that the same impulse prompts men now which has always prompted them. Only by interpreting the deepest and most fundamental human...
...proper study of mankind is man." The writer throughout is bright, entertaining, and incisive. But the immoderate application of well-known aphorisms detracts seriously from the freshness and value of the thought. The central idea of the paper is "The present lies four-square, and the sides are self, civilization, raw material, and fellow...
...traceable to the small, single lens instrument of the sixteenth century, called at the time Vita pulicaria, or flea-glass, because by its aid the true beauty of the flea, in outline and detail, was first brought clearly before the public eye. Aside from the great advantage accruing to mankind from a just appreciation of the flea, the learned men of the time declared that, with this wonderful machine, they had discovered many new monsters; and one savant affirmed that he had seen the devil himself...