Word: mankind
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Christ, said Bishop Carpenter, is a great personality in the world. In his life we find expressed the harmony between man and the unseen powers. He was more than an influential person; he was a great teacher of mankind. Some have said that we know nothing about Christ's principles, as we have no authoritative record of what he said. But eminent critics maintain that we have plenty of ground for believing that the gospels contain the essential principles of Christ's teaching...
President Eliot went on to show the development of museums here, and then in closing said, "The Germanic Museum will doubtless prove to be the first of a group of museums, illustrating at this institution the progress of civilization among the leading races of mankind down to recent years...
President Eliot, in closing the meeting said that the moral to be drawn from these addresses was: "It is not money which educated men should consider in determining their career. They should look for a life of intellectual, interest, which will be of service to mankind...
...experience the self centred traits of his nature began to disappear. From this time must be dated the real beginning of his literary career. The old sensitiveness to emotion and idealism, the delicate fancy and imagination still remained, and to these he has added something of the sympathy with mankind and human nature by which alone he might interpret the emotions and characters...
...least a strong tribute to the theory of immortality that it developed as primeval mankind developed into higher types, it is a still stronger tribute to its reasonableness that in the evolution of species it is first found in the highest types. The lower animals have no idea of death or a future life; it is only in the most intelligent mammals, and in man that it is found...