Word: mankind
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
France, believed of every soul that loves or serves mankind...
...party while the Democrats are allowing them to rust. But paragraphs such as the following tend to make one doubt his close application to the study of morals as a science and suspect that there may be willy-nilly a touch of politics in his utterance: "The progress of mankind is in proportion to the advancement of truth and justice. These standards are fundamentally what we call morals. It is moral standards in government which sustain democracy itself...
...public on what it eats, what it thinks, whether it expects to come to a good end. First modern scientific pollitician was big-eared, sharp-nosed Dr. Henry Charles Link, director of the Psychological Corporation's Psychological Service Centre in Manhattan. Dr. Link, who thinks mankind needs more religion and mathematics, started using a "psychological barometer" in 1932, three years before the FORTUNE Survey and George Horace Gallup's Institute of Public Opinion. Last week, in Columbus, Ohio, Dr. Link told the American Association of Applied Psychologists he had developed a barometer so sensitive that it can measure...
Twenty years ago, before the word "feminist" had begun to triten, Virginia Woolf considered that the proper study of mankind was sensitive, intelligent women with independent incomes. She kept to that belief till she had made herself the best-known woman novelist in England. Recently, however, world events have put even the sort of intelligent women she likes to write about in a dangerous spot; in Three Guineas she takes a stand on today's crop of social questions...
...many a U. S. educator: that humanity should be told that it is sometimes a duty, for the sake of human progress, to commit crime. Children, said he also, should learn that it is sometimes necessary to defy their parents. His thesis: if nobody ever broke a bad law, mankind would eventually get into a rut, sink back into savagery...