Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot help but think that Mr. Cabot's distinction between the "head" and the "heart" as guides to action was somewhat unwarrantably prejudiced in favor of the latter. When one reflects that almost all of the present and past ills of mankind have been brought about by the following of the dictates of the "heart"--if by "heart" is meant everything except "head" and that the only advances which have been made by humanity--advances of an unusually materialistic sort--have resulted more or less directly from the efficient "headword" of those who have trained themselves to doubt...
Vaporings. Since January last, when the experts designated by the Reparations Commission began their secret deliberations, mankind has been pestered with mad, wild guesses on the part of neurotic journalists who have professed to have unimpeachable information regarding the unvoiced thoughts of each individual expert. Alas, this harmless mental vaporing is now démodé! Last week the experts presented their reports to the Reparations Commission which published them...
Especially in recent years it has become the fashion for everyone except, in most cases, the scientists, to regard Science, with a large S--as a kind of Juggernaut or Frankenstein before whose blind onrush mankind is inevitably doomed to destruction. What were once considered triumphs of mind over matter have become victories of the machine over man, horribly portrayed in Vanity Fair woodcuts and the magazine supplements of Sunday newspapers. And the ever increasing momentum of scientific progress has startled philosophers out of pleasant and meaningless speculation into the discovery that even the thin air out of which they...
Will this be sacrificing ideals and honor? Ideals are made for man and if an old-fashioned ideal threatens to destroy man, it is no longer an ideal. The ideal is the path which will bring the most good to mankind...
...conduct. Mr. Wiggam is a lecturer and professor. This is his first book-a powerful new viewpoint that does not gloss over the status of civilization with honeyed words of praise and glorification. The book is divided in two parts. The first part consists of five warnings to mankind: 1) that the advanced races; of mankind are going backwards; 2) that heredity is the chief maker of men; 3) that the Golden Rule without Science will wreck the race that tries it; 4) that Medicine, Hygiene and Sanitation will weaken the human race; 5) that Morals, Education, Art and Religion...