Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...colonies and the U. S., and 5 from Germany should attend Oxford for three years each. Colonials and Americans were to receive £300 apiece per annum; the Germans, being nearer England, would get £250 each. Rhodes included the Americans because he believed there was an advantage to mankind in the union of English speaking peoples, to be gained "without . . . withdrawing them or their sympathies from the land of their adoption or birth...
...Harvard men, individuals of every conceivable type and tendency. They are of all degrees of intellectuality, high and low. We know some of them whose English will never incur criticism by reason of its Shakespearian qualities. Harvard graduates, like those of other universities, run the whole gamut of civilized mankind. We have never seen any real indication that one type predominates over a thousand others. The typical Harvard man and the Harvard manner are both of them a myth. Some day, we hope, the public imagination will forget it. The Boston Transcript...
...people of India, have no ill will toward the followers of religions other than our own: In fact we are the outstanding example of religious toleration in the history of mankind. Our chronicle, which far antidates those of any western peoples, is unsullied by the innocent blood of any teacher of gospel, Violence is not our way. Human differences we believe must be removed by humans methods and never by unworthy motives backed by brutal force, idealistic America should not go back to the path of the old European world, but assert her democratic way of cooperation in all endeavors...
...advise that the courses at this institution be arranged first with special reference to the training of preachers, teachers, lawyers and physicians, because these are most in the public eye and by precept and example can do most to uplift mankind. And, second, to instruction in chemistry, economics and history, especially the lives of the great earth, because I believe that such subjects will most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom and promote human happiness...
...acceptance colors one's view of the whole universe. Evolution becomes an impossible theory, questions of monogamy are labelled as sinful, and speculations upon the nature of God are condemned as the direst sort of heresy. While the Bible will always play an important part in the life of mankind, when it is invoked to check suggestions of improvements in the social order..or used to hamper free comment upon the universe, it becomes a deadly reactionary and illiberal document...