Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little illogicality, I cite the 4,000-year-old Californian sequoia trees as suggestive of a possible afterlife for that part of man which is separate from his body. Then I switch to religion, saying that I believe Christ, Buddha, Confucius and Mohammed to have had greater influence on mankind than any material scientist. I qualify my regard for Mohammed, who believed in war. I discount Christian ritual, holding for the Sermon on the Mount, the Golden Rule. I discount church services and spoken prayers. I declare there are sermons in thunderstorms, wildflowers, oakleaves, snowflakes, squirrels. I advise religionists...
...worship of Mammon has filled our purses to satiety we turn not to fighting the Devil, or Sin, or ourselves, but to social reform, to fighting tuberculosis or hookworm, or vice. The idea is presumably that if we try to patch up the botch Jehovah has made of keeping mankind in running order, Jehovah will repay our time and expense by deputing an angel to put us at the top of St. Peter's waiting list. We admire King Arthur, who gave Anglia a good administration and checked the Saxon crime wave more than Sir Galahad who went...
...strain of mice which, when 16 days old, became bald; when three weeks old, lost the fur off their backs; when a month old, ran naked. Some day, predicted Mouse-Breeder Brooke, at the present rate of shaving, clipping, singeing, bobbing, waving, shingling, barbers will be unnecessary to mankind...
...assert that the country is decadent, but they always imply that the remedy is simply to place them in power. Individual critics may make despondent observations, but usually they urge a pet reform to set the world aright. Even cynics of the Mencken variety who see little virtue in mankind alleviate the sting of their sneers by a tacit admission that their circle is not beyond saving...
...immemorial, farmers have planted their root crops in the dark of the moon, though scientists state it is mere superstition. Similarly, though summer schools now flourish, the real tubers of Education-are not set in until the days begin to shorten. Last week marked the world-wide beginning of mankind's annual effort to keep posterity abreast of the times...