Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DeWitt S. Goodman delivered the English Oration on BLOOD FRACTIONATION: SCIENCE IN THE SERVICE OF MANKIND...
...Catch. "In the present contest between Russia and the West for winning the soul of Asia-the souls of the peasant three-quarters of mankind-a Communist Russia has an appeal for Asia which it would be folly for us to . . . underestimate . . . Russia can say to Asia today: '. . . Like you today, I yesterday was depressed, ignorant, hopeless, and tame . . . See how I have pulled myself up to the Western level of efficiency, prosperity and power . . . by my own bootstraps . . . You can do [it] for yourselves tomorrow if you will only take my advice...
...have not resigned from the human race. Neither science nor technology nor all the deterministic doctrine inspired by them, nor the despotisms that have tried to force that doctrine upon mankind, have succeeded in producing a world that can function without our individual powers of reason, imagination and conscience. We are not mere sponges or plankton afloat on a tide . . . We are rational beings, capable of charting the tide and navigating it, and even diverting and directing it . . . There is no dialectical or technological substitute for the creative individual...
Since there is no exit from the coming clash of the two "colossi," mankind is doomed to a long night of barbarism-i.e., a Barbary shore...
...Provost Buck's committee on religion point up a serious lack in the curriculum of this university: the absence of a broad General Education course in the field of modern religion. The fact that religious systems exist in all cultures indicates that they serve an important function to mankind. The study of our own religion is certainly important enough to warrant a course in it; our religion deserves study both as a part of our cultural heritage (as does literature, for instance), and as an area of personal importance to every student...