Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...services at Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon. The speaker after reading a portion of the gospel of St. John made a short address especially for students of history and philosophy. He said he wished to impress upon these men in particular, the lesson of eternal progress and improvement of mankind; in which improvement the working together of all persons is an essential quality. For by this working together we make ourselves partakers of the divine life...
...century is the grandest opportunity for good deeds and reform. The thing for the man of leisure to learn to know is first, that leisure means work, and secondly, that he must have enthusiasm. He who does not have to labor for his daily bread ought to laber for mankind...
...living creatures we have no reason for believing that he alone is destined to eternal life. The speaker then showed that there is imminent in the universe an infinite, immaterial Spirit. This Spirit, acting through evolution, has produced all creatures living upon this earth and last of all created mankind, a race of beings possessing immortal souls and a code of morals teaching them to live in harmony with one another. And, finally, since the same action of the same Spirit has created both the human soul and the moral sense, we have every reason to believe that the purpose...
...respected as martyrs. But they have left the world behind them and with it all chauce of doing good. One should throw himself thoroughly into the times in which he lives. Although he will meet with impurity and corruption yet he will be doing his share to raise mankind to a higher level...
...German poet. Carlyle did not blindly become an admirer of Goethe but brought all his powers of mind to bear upon his life and works. Had Carlyle not judged Goethe so carefully and so critically his thoughts and opinions would not have been, as they are now, those of mankind but simply those of Carlyle. The explanation of Carlyle's attitude to Goethe is that of conviction of great imagination and power of expression united to high moral power. Carlyle never judged a man to have faults if the inner spirit which inspired and ruled a man's life...