Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first demonstration of surgical anacstbesia, which took place in this hospital on October 16, 1846, was the great event which we celebrate today. From this building the blessed art spread rapidly over the civilized world, the most beneficent gift which chemical and medical science has conferred on mankind...
...Eliot cited the various uses to which ether is put at the present day, and mentioned the discovery of antiseptics seventeen years after that of ether. He then spoke on animal experimentation by vivisection, and gave the resulting benefits to mankind as adequate justification for these experiments. He took as an example the result of the very first discovery, that of substituting vaccination for innoculation in cases of small...
...civilized world has come to believe in the freedom of inquiry in all fields, as the best means of progress in knowledge, in manners and in righteous living. Now the field of inquiry from which within the last 60 years mankind has received the largest visible, tangible, concrete, demonstrable benefits is in the field of medical research applied in the medical and surgical art and in sanitary science. If freedom of inquiry be in general expedient and righteous, should not inquiry be free in this most productive of all fields? To secure and maintain this freedom against the assaults...
...behalf of Harvard University I want to thank you, Sir, and the other Delegates from Foreign Universities, for the honor you have done us by coming here. The ties of a common scholarship should be among the closest that bind together mankind, for they, know not time, place or nationality. The bond is universal and eternal. Men eminent by your achievements in literature, in history, in law and in science, bring us greetings from the older world of learning, and from our neighbors North and South, which we shall ever remember with pleasure and with pride...
...them the greatest happiness, that inspire us. Our loyalty is more impersonal than theirs, yet it brings about the same happiness, and "happiness is what counts." "The motive power of men who work at Harvard is loyalty. The motives which lead to human happiness are the same for all mankind, at least for all civilized mankind who have reached a highly organized state of civilization. That is what Japan had, a highly organized state of civilization, long before we had. It is wrong to hope that all nations oughtto be alike, that is not the real democratic ideal; the real...