Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long will it be before mankind realizes that large families are a form of selfishness?" demanded the Rt. Rev. Ernest Williams Barnes, bishop of Birmingham, in a lecture at Cambridge University last week. His audience waited for more. Bishop Barnes was at his favorite sport- setting off firecrackers under his Anglican brethren...
...bishop went on. The chief obstacles before mankind at the present time, he cried, are "overpopulation and starvation," rather than "racialism and war." He blamed this sorry state of affairs on "the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church and the need for cannon fodder affirmed by the new Western religions of nationalism [which] are producing overpopulation in Western civilization...
...Philosopher Stace's "it" - whatever it is - is hardly what the run of mankind means by "God."* But TIME should more accurately have said that Dr. Stace was looking to psychological laws as a modern basis for morality...
When John Greenleaf Whittier wrote these lines, he believed, with most of his 19th Century fellow optimists, that mankind was slowly but surely working its way through history to a better world. Science, statecraft and scripture, they thought, were leading men together to the same goal-the establishment of God's kingdom upon earth...
...remedy, according to Niebuhr: let mankind return to the Christian concept that history is a drama "of God's contest with all men, who are all inclined to defy God because they all tend to make their own life into the center of history's meaning...