Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since self-righteousness so often accompanies good health, bad health must result from unrighteousness, or so have reasoned the generations of mankind. His first serious twinge sends the sick man to doctor or priest, for pills sometimes, for confession always. M.D.'s diagnose them outside in, priests diagnose them inside out; together they cover all the ground. When one man combines the abilities of both, he can hang out his shingle on the moon. Scores of sick men will then scurry to live on the moon. Should he, like Freud, open his office on Venus, half the world will scurry...
Dartmoor itself does not yield the influences which are calculated to soften and better mankind. In the immediate vicinity there is no house, no civilization apparent, to make the convicts remember that they are human. There is a wierd quiet that hangs over the place which is augmented only by the wierder call of the Tern. This is not an environment which lends itself to character building. The prison is of ancient design with all the discomfort and severity of the early Victorian period. Nothing is done to ease the burden of the penal existence...
...Mankind is on the threshold of change, evidenced by growing unrest. To suppress the unrest, the rulers are limiting that unique feature of democracy, free speech, and this limitation in turn is aggravating the unrest. One must agree with Mr. Bliven that the normal human being prefers the application of his theory to open discussion about it. Consequently, when one group of people wants to discard a system, say, of government, and another wants to retain it, they fight each other by fair methods or foul. Boiled down, the principle always practiced is that the end justifies the means...
...Nations has accomplished a great deal to preserve the peace of the world, it will never be able to meet a real international crisis without a much more potent threat to the offending countries than it now has, namely an appeal to them to consider the interests of mankind...
...world-scene, comes to the melioristic conclusion that "this adventure may continue and our race survive." Some of the chapter-headings : The Conquest of Distance; of Hunger; of Climate; How Goods are Bought and Sold; Why People Work; How-Work is Paid for and Wealth Accumulated ; The Governments of Mankind and Their Economic and Military Warfare. Up-to-date, Mr. Wells has included a section on The Suspension of the Gold Standard by Great Britain...