Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fear is the impression your brutally frank description might make on your casual reader, who cannot realize the enormous significance of a personal experience like Beers' being turned to account for the benefit of mankind...
...works of art when the composer's lust to create is unaccompanied by a sufficiency of sound and charming ideas. But Schubert never lacked charming ideas. Within the limits of his interests and curiosities he hatched more good ideas in his thirty-one years than all the rest of mankind has hatched since the beginning of time...
...Whither Mankind" follows neither cycle. In this symposium Mr. Beard has merely striven for understanding, a pause to look back and glance at the balance sheet of our present day civilization. In the confusion of the days events, the average Rotarian, rarely finds the moments, or grasps the isolated opportunity to see spread before him the wide vista presented by the present day world and its components. Life is too short! The view is too limited! But aided by a group of eminent men in all fields Mr. Beard has accomplished this height from which the average human can view...
...WHITHER MANKIND...
Brilliantly conceived by Beard, executed with talent that varies from the sound expert to the high genius, Whither Mankind is a stimulating contribution to that very civilization which it so cogently analyzes...