Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...world. It will act as a centralized agency for the improvements of public health, the prevention of disease and the mitigation of suffering throughout the world. It will also serve in cases of national or international disaster. Another of its purposes is to promote the welfare of mankind by furnishing a medium for bringing within the reach of all the people the benefits to be derived from present known facts, new contributions to science and medical knowledge and their application...
...this nation which Washington urged. By our entrance into the World War, we gave up formally our position apart from the affairs of the world. We are in them now; we cannot withdraw. The progress of science and the development of a humanitarian feeling for the rest of mankind has placed us irrevocably on the side of world politics...
Doubtless many will not be satisfied with particular clauses of the document; viewing it as a whole, however, with its ratification, a long step will be made toward establishing "the reign of law, based on the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind...
...that he can go to enforce that square deal, the future will need to have little fear of Bolshevism or any of the other isms. The legal aid movement is growing and those who are willing to make the sacrifice for it will do a more lasting service to mankind than they can now realize for civilization must rest upon law, and on order to have law effective it must be popular with those who must submit...
...sure civilization has struggled up in the midst of destructive wars, and was apparently never so flourishing as in the spring of 1914. The course of the war, however, has gone far to convince mankind that there can be no return to the old order of things. One of the mistakes of those who oppose a League of Peace is to think that any country in the world can go back to the place that it occupied five years ago. Not only are three great empires smashed, but the fourth--Germany, seems to be in the midst of civil...