Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think that nothing can be more important than interplanetary communication. It will certainly come some day. and the certitude that there are other human beings in the universe, working, suffering, struggling, like ourselves, will produce a magic effect on mankind and will form the foundation of a universal brotherhood that will last as long as humanity itself...
...Robert Andrews Millikan, Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lament, Henry Herman Westinghouse, and many another. Their greetings indicate the hope if not the confidence that "in a few months" or "a few years" the flame of Nikola Tesla's genius will weld one more astounding new device for mankind...
...value of war Professor Boas and Sir Arthur disagree diametrically. Cried the American: "I do not see how such a statement can be justified in any way. War eliminates the physically strong. War increases all the devastating scourges of mankind such as tuberculosis and genital diseases. War weakens the growing generation...
...another population point the two anthropologists disagreed. Sir Arthur had said: "In race antipathy and race prejudice nature has implanted for her own end the improvement of mankind through racial differentiation...
...what Browne describes as a reign of terror. "Of all the virtues possessed by the Christians, tolerance was last and least." Under Julian the Apostate's empery came a brief interregnum. Even St. Augustine is flayed by Author Browne. "The extravagance of his belief in the innate wickedness of mankind leads one to suspect that he may have suffered from some psychic maladjustment. Perhaps the root of the trouble lay in his peculiar emotional relationship to his mother. . . ." The period of troublous popes (904-963) he says "is often spoken of even by Catholic historians as the Papal Pornocracy...