Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have peace only if we have justice and fair dealing among nations. The United Nations is the best means we have for deciding what is right and what is wrong between nations . . . Nothing is more important if mankind is to overcome the barbarian doctrine that might makes right...
...Messiah. The very idea of Messiahship, he says, is undergoing a change. Though the Orthodox still believe in a personal Messiah and pray for his coming each day, "a large segment of the liberal Jewish community has discarded the notion of a single messianic personality who is to save mankind ... In its place they affirm their faith in a messianic era which is to be achieved by the cooperative efforts of good men of all nations, races and religions...
...stump to rouse the country. He opened his campaign at Ebbwvale, his Welsh constituency. He warned again that rearmament meant economic dislocation. Bevan protested that he was not anti-American-in fact, said he, some of his best friends were Americans. But "It is not necessary for mankind to walk the way Russia has walked or ... the way America still walks." Sevan's red-headed ally, Barbara Castle, M.P. from Blackburn and one of Labor's left-wing firebrands, went barnstorming in Lancashire. For the time being, Attlee had saved his government. But the fact remains that Bevan...
...relativism. Then he dismisses each of them by saying that "chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything." This verdict does not land Santayana in the camp of the simon-pure pessimists. Nature, he insists, does trace out repetitive patterns of order, and for Naturalist Santayana the life of mankind is a problem in horticulture...
...Long View. Today, thinks Santayana, both the U.S. and Russia "aspire to be universal; and under either of them, if absolutely dominant, mankind might become safe, law-abiding, sporting, and uniform." And under either, the individual soul attempting to follow its "native bent" might find itself in a spiritual concentration camp. Since he dreads the export of America's "commercial" culture as much as any French intellectual who winces at the sight of a Coke, Santayana feels that perhaps the "barbarians" of the East might organize the future better than the "decadent" technicians of the West. "Conviction has deserted...