Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Research for Mankind...
...delighted to see the face of Dr. Waksman peering from the cover of TIME [Nov. 7]. The pictures of politicians, prizefighters, musicians, models, etc. are all right in their small sphere; but the work of men like Dr. Waksman, which results in good for all mankind, regardless of race, creed or color, is of much greater importance...
...Sicily is the story of a 29-year-old linotype operator named Silvestro Ferrauto, who is bored to death with himself, his daily routine and everything else in his town. Nothing seems to matter. That, thinks Silvestro, is "the terrible part . . . to believe mankind to be doomed, and yet to feel no fever to save if, but instead to nourish a desire to succumb with...
...answer was simple: there is a kind of knowledge that transcends time & place; there are absolute values such as Truth and Justice, and they can be found by modern man, especially by studying what the great minds of the past had to say about the constant problems of mankind. The purpose of education, he held, is to train minds to be free, not chaotic, and free "because they can understand the order of goods and can achieve them in that order...
...power to say who shall serve in them and in what way . . . The constitutional guaranties of personal liberty are not always absolutes . . . [Dr. Warren violated the law] under his asserted philosophy that he had a right to disobey a Federal law which he believed to be detrimental to mankind. A person may not decide to himself whether a law is good or bad and if bad, that he is free to disobey...