Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Truth, said Mr. Fenn, is personal. It may be of three kinds: truth of sincerity of thought; truth which lies in the agreement between the individual thought and the general opinion of mankind; and truth of reality. It is to the last kind that the truth of character belongs...
...student who was fortunate enough to enter Harvard College in the sixties entered at a time of great intellectual and moral growth. During these years Emerson had kept writing about an ideal life free from the turmoils of mankind. Lowell, Whittier and Harriet Beecher Stowe were stirring the consciences of mankind against slavery. The words of William Lloyd Garrison were engraved upon the memories of Harvard men. The news of John Brown's raid had startled the land, and now the echo of the guns fired at Fort Sumter was heard. On Bloody Monday, 1862, the campaign was begun, which...
Christ teaches mankind the broadminded faculty, the freedom from gross materialism, which in art we call imagination, in philosophy idealism, in religion, faith. This is the gift which the world of today especially needs. The age is a cyclops with the keen but narrow vision of its single eye for materialism. In America, where the child nation's body is scarcely grown and its sould but beginning to develop, sordid prosperity, even more than elsewhere, deadens man's higher senses and encourages his skepticism for everything except selfish gain...
pelled, there is no despair. Again and again he went out into the world to lift up mankind, to do them good and make them better, but he was always repulsed. There was, however, no relaxation of endeavor; the Evangelist tells us simply that he went to other villages. He could do no more than work on, weary and sad at heart and go down to the darkness of death with an apparent failure...
Christianity triumphs, not apart from the rest of mankind, but in the midst of all of us, by showing its faith, hope, and patience. As the practical outcome of it all, we observe that Christ's heroism was not shown for Himself alone. It means the emancipation of us all. The little Hill of Bethany is the steppingstone to that Heaven whither He would lead us in His love. As we think of this consummate hero and share His fraternal love, we begin to feel all the more like Him and to benefit by His example...