Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...powerful. At different times cotton, or coal, or sugar has been called king, and at all times among business men money has been held the highest power. Scientists believe knowledge to be the greatest ruling power. Yet no one of these powers can be truly called king of mankind. Money, that is representative of all material good, indeed secures obedience from all men. It is essential, too, as a factor in our every-day life. But, far from spreading a spirit of concord among its subjects, it arouses strife and discord among them...
...that none of these powers can be a true king of mankind. Yet Christ, whose life and death are the incarnation of love, represents the only power that can abide. Other interests can secure ephemeral power, but they can not bring permanent peace and stability...
...college students will have in their lives to deal with men. They are to essay the higher planes of life. To them the study of mankind must be an important one, for whether they have to make or keep fortunes, their individualities must be pitted against those of others; and in the struggle of individualities a knowledge of one's own, with its strength and weakness, is of the first importance. There were never wiser words spoken than those of old Polonius; "To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst...
...duty we owe to the church. Sunday is the foundation, the keystone of the church, and were this to be broken down, the church would not long outlive it. No matter what sect or denomination we belong to, we must all unite in pronouncing Christianity a wonderful benefactor to mankind, and essential to society. The church and school-house are the symbols of our American civilization...
Theosophy asserts the existence of a primeval teaching, tantamount to a revelation, yet deduced from fact and experience. This teaching is known to certain choice souls, is preserved by them, and though at times obscured in different nations, is handed down through the generations of mankind. It runs through science and all religions, and shows a single underlying basis, of which the various phases it exhibits are but variants...