Word: mankind
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Last week a radio course in American history was proving once again that instruction in mankind's development can be, as it should be, full of lively, personal provocation and free of academic dead weight. The course was The World and America, produced by TIME'S Radio Programs Department, which last week had reached the American Revolution and its 14th out of 52 weekly 15-minute broadcasts. The program is locally sponsored in New York City by the Eagle Pencil Co. (WQXR, Sun., 2 p.m., E.W.T...
Viconian Thunderclap. Finnegans Wake, say Campbell and Robinson, "is a mighty allegory of the fall and resurrection of mankind." (Tim Finnegan was originally the hero of an Irish vaudeville song who falls off a ladder and is thought to be dead until a friend splashes whiskey over him at the funeral wake.) The four parts of Joyce's novel reflect Italian Philosopher Giovanni Battista Vice's theory that history eternally passes and repasses through four phases: theocratic, aristocratic, democratic, chaotic. Finnegans Wake suggests that life has again reached the stage of chaos and is awaiting a divine thunderclap...
Personal, too, as love and beer and death is your feeling for mankind and brotherhood. You are an American and all you inherently know and feel was born in you here. You are a true picture of our national life...
...Myth. Author Schwarzschild left Germany in 1933, moved from Paris to New York in 1940. At root, his thesis is simple: the Old Adam is, always has been and always will be uppermost in mankind. People have not improved much in the past, they are not improving now, and only fools assume the contrary. Woodrow Wilson and all those caught with him in the perfectionist dream of the Versailles years did assume the contrary, and led the world into chaos...
Albert Einstein's position as one of the great popular idols of the 20th Century is a historic phenomenon of hero worship. Few of his millions of admirers understand his relativity theory, fewer still have any notion of how it might benefit mankind. He has been called atheist, radical, many another hard name. Yet Manhattan's famed Riverside Church has already enshrined him in stone among the great scientists of all time, and conservative heads of state delight to honor...