Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...believed that there was a growing purpose and sense in the world of justice for all mankind, but it was not the justice depicted in the Bible as exhibited by the Hebrew God, it was not the best justice of mankind today towards fellow-men, towards women and children. He looked for the coming of a wiser justice and a justice tempered with mercy and tenderness. And that was at the root of Major Higginson's nature...
...open-minded in his way. He was ready to believe that we had not got to the end of the world or that the we had reached the end of truth, or the end of the social organization of mankind...
Statesmen may deplore the evils of the times; bolsheviks may at any moment tear society asunder; thirsty lips may forever be parched. But if all these disasters do not destroy the spark of humor in mankind, then life will be worth living after...
...endured for a lifetime sufferings equal to those of our esteemed Belgian guests, and died unrecognized and unacclaimed by the world. The Christian missionary, on the whole, has been and is as worthy of our respect as any other person who has suffered for and rendered large service to mankind. ARCHIBALD B. MOORE...
...should like heartily to underline Mr. Carver's division of mankind into goats and sheep: "First, those who wish to secure wealth by making men afraid to refuse it to them; second, those who work for prosperity by making themselves useful, helpful and indispensable." The first, of course, being the group of men which controls the minds of the people by owning the factories in which the people work, by owning and directing the newspapers which the people read, and by directing mounted soldiers (the Russians call such soldiers Cossacks) to intimidate and cast fear into the heart...