Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...historical beginnings of the theory of immortality were crude. In the primeval savage tribes, it existed in the belief in ghosts who more or less directly influenced the lives of mortal men. As the intellect of mankind developed through the ages, so this theory of immortality grew and became clearer,--showing itself in the religion of the Hebrews, the mythology of the Greeks, and reaching its culmination in Christianity...
...what may be called a Western civilization. In the Western part of this East-Mediterranean area, Mr. Arthur Evans in 1894 found some records of an ancient Western system of writing, an outgrowth of the early savage pictograph made in all parts of the Mediterranean district by primitive mankind. He found on Cretan engraved stones a system of Cretan pictographs corresponding to the Hittite pictograph. He also found a system of Cretan linear signs analogous to the Capriote characters. We can approximately make out that these Western systems of writing, centered in Crete, go back to the date...
...there are two great dangers which threaten its welfare. One of these dangers is discontent. Education carries with it powerful advantages, but it has this one disadvantage of promoting discontent. Yet this is not without reason for by education we create a condition of want; the thing that differentiates mankind is want; and there is no civilization without want. We must face our own problem then and deal with it accordingly. There is no sudden way to stop this condition, but there is a way for men to alleviate it. Discontent there will be, but we can lessen its proportion...
...even the Athanasian Creed may be used for the support of a moral and social faith. Coming to the Confessions of the Reformation period, we must understand their watchword, "Faith" like St. Paul, as "Faith which worketh by love," and election as a call to service on behalf of mankind. Even the doctrines of the Council of Trent may be purified by this moralization: the Papacy becomes the assertion of the need of unity: Trans substantiation the change of the 'idea' which makes us feel the presence of Christ: Purgatory the hope of restoration for imperfect souls...
...highest ideals. What lied beyond is beyond the comprehension of man and therefore a man should make no affirmation about the future. But what a man can do is to become a Christian because in doing so he supports the church which should be the highest designation of mankind. The life of the true Christian should not be limited by narrow dogmas, it should be the personification of unselfishness and love, for it is upon love that the Universe rests...