Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...assistance. The highest development of sympathy is seen in the monkey. Then comes the lower man. From them to the higher man the development is marvelous, introducing paternal love, love of the tribe, love of the Creator, (which in the lower men is only fear), universal sympathy with mankind, and in the last century sympathy with animals and love for nature...
...proposed to make the training in natural science the main part of education, for the great majority of mankind at any rate. And here, I confess, I part company with the friends of physical science with whom up to this point I have been agreeing. The smallness of my acquaintance with the disciples of natural science is ever before my mind, and I am fearful of doing them injustice...
...present it seems to me that those who are for giving to natural knowledge, as they call it, the chief place in the education of the majority of mankind, leave one important thing out of their account-the constitution of human nature. But I put this forward on the strength of some facts not at all recondite, very far from it, facts capable of being stated in the simplest possible fashion, and to which, if I so state them, the man of science will, I am sure, be willing to allow their due weight...
...these powers; we have the need for them all. This is evident enough, and the friends of physical science will admit it. But perhaps they may not have sufficiently observed another thing: namely, that these powers just mentioned are not isolated, but there is in the generality of mankind a perpetual tendency to relate them one to another divers ways. With one such way of relating them I am particularly concerned now. Following our instinct for intellect and knowledge, we acquire pieces of knowledge; and presently, in the generality of men, there arises the desire to relate these pieces...
...then, there is to be separation and opposition between humane letters on the one hand, and the natural sciences on the other," says Mr. Matthew Arnold, in an article just published in the Manhattan magazine, "the great mankind, all who have not exceptional and overpowering aptitudes for the study of nature, would do well, I cannot but think, to choose to be educated in humane letters rather than in the natural sciences. Letters will call out their being at more points, will make them live more." These words of the great apostle of sweetness and light come to us with...