Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seldom has the general tendency of mankind to view with alarm been so vividly pointed out. One feels less, doubtful concerning national standards of 1926 when one knows that in 1827 people were writing such things us-- "a glance at our country and its present moral condition fills the mind with alarming apprehension." The jazz age has nothing on the age of crinolines and Jenny Lind. It will cheer the public to be apprised of its ancestors' wickedness, for the immobile faces in the family album become more human when their foibles are proclaimed...
...early autumn; bald over the temples, high and round of brow, thinly bearded and of a faintly Oriental cast of countenance. He is Count Hermann Keyserling, philosopher. He conducts a School of Wisdom, where mature thinkers go by petition or invitation to contemplate problems of great moment to mankind; where philosophical treatises are conceived, prescribed, submitted, criticized, developed, issued to the world. Count Keyserling's chief preoccupation is with the Western World, whose soul and mind he and others (notably Herr Doktor Oswald Spengler) profess to find in a decline. He has equipped himself to serve the Western World...
...truest answer, yet he regarded himself quite simply and scientifically as "differing" from faithful folk who "make themselves quite easy by intuition." He avoided cosmic thoughts, kept his writing purposely free from Pantheism, stuck to his species and specimens and "let God go" as imponderable. The Lover of mankind was his second greatest role. He was too gentle, reasonable, humble to quarrel or criticize. Attacks upon himself left him unmoved. Sociably inclined, he had to contend with his fondness for people to get his work done. His love and respect for his children was immense. A keen sportsman in youth...
...these days of strict scrutiny of mankind hardly a thing exsists in regard to which some one does not cry, "Something ought to be done about it!" The latest wrinkle in reforms has been brought to light by Le Figaro in the shape of a conference at Amsterdam to do something about the severely detrimental economic effects of rheumatism. The statisticians of this gathering have discovered that by limbering up the world three million days would be saved annually; they have the will to accomplish this result, "mais comment?" as Le Figaro concludes...
...Jewish people, even the Jewish problem, is not to disappear but is to go on as a distinctive part of the composite life of the world, there may come into and through the life of Israel much that will be of value both to itself and to all mankind...