Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With one grand slash of the pen, the professor reduces all mankind to a single dead level. "There is no such thing," says he, "as an inheritance of capacity, talent, temperament, mental constitution and characteristics. These things depend on training." It has always been thought that environment and training are important, but it has also been suspected that if a child's father was a moron and his mother an imbecile, the chances were strongly against his becoming a Plato, a Carlyle, or even a Dr. Frank Crane. It is reassuring to have Professor Watson's statement that every...
...entire collection is hung under two general placards, Imaginary and Real. In the first row, all of them caricatures, hang sundry types of mankind which it has been Mr. Boyd's fortune to encounter or divine-Aesthete: Model 1924, A Literary Lady, A Literary Enthusiast, A Critic, A Liberal, A Synthetic Gael, The second row is subplacarded Impressions-brief sketches of Cabell, Hergesheimer, G. B. Shaw and others; and Close-Ups -the big pieces of the exhibit, presenting among others George Jean Nathan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Moore and Mr. Boyd's countrymen -Yeats, Stephens and George...
There were many Winkelberg relatives, all the same. The whole city, lusting and pulsing in greedy dark animalism, was a city of Winkelbergs. There were a million such Winkelberg cities, a world full of them, a Winkelberg mankind. Every dawn, when the red sun bowled up over the earth, all the Winkelberg bulbs stirred in a blind organism known to the Winkelbergs as a day of life. Personified, this day was a disheveled maniac, a Humpty Dumpty in streaming cheesecloth toga, bawling fresh tidings from Bedlam down the winds of the earth...
...National Biography. Germany has her Allegemeine Deutsche Biographic. These and similar gigantic works in other countries, though they treat of their subjects, however distinguished, only in factual outline and leave the delineation of men in their entirety to their Boswells, are complete and authoritative basis upon which studies of mankind will be made in the far future...
...treat tuberculosis with a chemical substance containing a certain amount of gold. The idea of gold as a therapeutic agent has always had a peculiar fascination for both the public and the physician, so that "gold cures" have been available for practically every type of ill from which mankind may suffer. Unfortunately, none of these "cures" has thus far stood the test of scientific observation. The method devised by Prof. Molgaard has been tested on animals in his laboratories to a rather limited extent. His work has been conducted in a scientific manner, but it is impossible to state from...