Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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British colored citizens were maltreated, and in the law British subjects received unfair treatment. These two facts gave England the right to interfere. Even setting aside the special justification of England's claim, there still remains the broader, the firmer, the higher ground of the supreme law of mankind, the inalienable right of any international state to protect its citizens from injustice in a foreign land...
...disagreement between a man's government and his Church, he should in all cases stand by the former. The letter of 1890 goes on to say that the Church should have supervision over the government, and should have direct control of all matters of intellectual or moral interest to mankind...
Half the troubles of mankind come from an ignorance which consists less in not knowing things, than in wilfully ignoring known things. Certain great political and social plagues exist for which men of thought should be an antidote. What I plead for today is the wider, nobler, unpaid service which an educated man renders to society simply by being thoughtful and by helping others to think. Passion, as well as ignorance, is dangerous. Educated men should oppose war when avoidable but when it becomes inevitable they should be its most vigorous advocates. No man ought to be too much educated...
...best hope not only of the two countries but of the entire world. It is perhaps not too much to hope that in the near future there will be such a union, and this will set an example sure to be of the most important and beneficient influence to mankind...
...memory of Professor Josiah Dwight Whitney and Professor Francis James Child, who died during the summer. Those who attend prayers this morning will have the privilege of hearing of a rare character and a noble, unselfish life, spent in the cause of education and for the betterment of mankind. But all of us, whether or not we attended chapel yesterday or attend today, are heartily in accord with the spirit of the services and add our tribute of gratitutde for the inspiration which the lives of the men, commemorated in these services, have lent...