Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first five lectures, Bishop Boyd-Carpenter treated successively the life of Dante, the influences in his life, and the drama of the soul as pictured in the "Divina Commoedia." In the final lecture, the great significance of the whole will be summed up in Dante's message to mankind. The lecture will be open to the public...
Bishop Boyd-Carpenter is eminently qualified to speak on the subject of Dante, having devoted many years of his life to a study of the great Florentine whose influence has so impressed the later history of mankind...
...School concerns a field of investigation of widespread importance. In the tropics the advance of the white man is constantly impeded by the attacks of tropical diseases, and the existence even of he natives is imperiled. To overcome these conditions would be one of the greatest possible services to mankind...
...contrasts, emphasizes at the very outset of his article that "the character and importance of German universities depends particularly on the close connection between investigation and instruction: the teachers not only impart traditional knowledge, but they are themselves occupied in discovering new facts and increasing the intellectual possessions of mankind. Thus the auditor is introduced into the very midst of scientific work and from this he obtains the strongest stimulus. Closely connected with this is the slight value attached to examinations in German universities. Continually is it impressed upon the minds of the students that they should work...
...whatever that task might be. He showed that the prevalent idea of the meaning of work as a means of controlling the greatest share of material products was fast giving way to the consideration of work and especially of useful co-operation as a means of service to mankind. He took up the question of president-day industrial problems and showed that the interests of capital and labor were identical in many respects such as labor legislation for the equalization of risk between employer and workman and again in the case of compensation for injury to employee. He pointed...