Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rightly, one gets into his temperate zone after passing the parallel of forty, and arrives at that shall I call it Sheltered Haven of Middle Age, when, in proportion as one is more careful of the conclusions he arrives at, he is less zealous in his desire that all mankind should agree with him. Moreover, the longer one studies, the more thoroughly does one persuade himself that till he knows everything, he knows nothing,-that after twenty years of criticism one is still a mere weigher and gauger:-skilled only to judge what he may chance to have been...
...only through this record of Man's joys and sorrows, of his aspirations and failures, of his thought, his speculation, and his dreams, that we can become complete men, and learn both what he is and what he may be, for it is the unconscious autobiography of mankind. And has no page been added to it since the last ancient classic author laid down...
...tendency. The mind may become as unbalanced through over-practicalism as through over-idealism, and boast as we may of the triumphs of science in its application to commerce and the arts of life, it is still only the achievements of the imagination that stir the deeper enthusiasm of mankind. Watt and Stephenson are entitled to our highest respect, but Plato holds his own, and we feel that something greater and rarer went to the making of Hamlet than to the invention of the steamengine, or the turning of it into a draught horse. Men have always been willing...
which does not hang upon the mercy of chance or of our likes and dislikes, but which if the last copy of it should perish would still live on, because it had transfused with its own divine vitality the intellect and heart of mankind...
Paul's plea "That I may know Him," was satisfied partially when, going to Damascus, he was changed from a hater of mankind to one of its firmest advocates, when he turned from the scorn and contempt of a Pharisee to the love and duty of a Christian. Then again he grew to know Chirst from studying and appreciating his life until, as the orb of day pierces the early morning mists, so he saw the personality of Christ rise through the sorrows of his life. Finally Paul grew to know Christ by serving Him; he suffered and accomplished, lived...