Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...revealed. So we may now distinguish between the skilled mechanic and the newer type, the engineer. The former is actuated by commercial motives only; the latter, the creation of the advance in natural sciences, possesses knowledge rather than skill and has for his ideal the ultimate benefit of mankind. This latter type is the man we refer to when we speak of the engineer; his profession is engineering...
...nature. Faraday said: "It requires twenty years to make a man in the physical sciences." The young engineer must have infinite optimism and hope. Yet the result more than repays this delay; for there is no satisfaction so great as the realization that one has advanced the progress of mankind...
...lightest types of philosophy have always been those which had for their aim the interpretation of the universe for the ennobling of mankind. Such a philosophy must be rational and entirely practical yet realizing the truth of human ideals. For after all, actual progress in the betterment of mankind comes through mental longing after what is more nearly perfect. The dream is the parent of the improved work-a-day life...
...also for his body, and has succeeded in eliminating many diseases through the use of medicine and in other ways. Cures and remedies have been found for almost all the common diseases, and new ways of preventing their causes have been discovered, yet the real contagion among mankind is spread through weak minds, feeble mental influences, and bad environments. Drunkenness, tuberculosis, and almost all forms of vice are the result of this mental disease. Although the ideal Christian condition without disease is naturally the doctor's enemy, as without it he would not have his work, yet that fact...
...brought into prominence the mayor's power of censorship. Leaving out of consideration the wisdom of this particular prohibition, there can be no doubt that there have appeared, unchallenged, numerous dramatic productions calculated to feed on human weaknesses. Such plays as the "Follies" which excite the baser passions of mankind by their sensuous dances and flippant jests in regard to breaches of the Seventh Commandment and to drunkenness have been allowed to vulgarize and debase their audiences...