Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Foster Dulles also predicted that certain long-term advantages might accrue to the West. The Russians, he reasoned, could not arouse the hopes of mankind for peace, and then crumple them, without meriting a new surge of world bitterness and distrust. Dulles felt that nations, like individuals, could become creatures of their own behavior: if the Russians talked long enough about removing the causes of world tensions, they might eventually find themselves compelled to start removing them. Dulles' theory was founded upon a belief that the Russians needed a breathing spell for which they would pay a price...
...incorruptible Professor walked . . . averting his eyes from the odious multitude of mankind. He had no future. He disdained it. He was a force . . . He walked frail, insignificant, shabby, miserable-and terrible in the simplicity of his idea calling madness and despair to the regeneration of the world. Nobody looked at him. He passed on unsuspected and deadly, like a pest in a street full...
...continuous peace, one religion will eventually win the allegiance of the whole of mankind, Arnold J. Toynbee said last night in the fourth and last of the Hewitt Lectures at Sanders Theatre. The winning religion will not eliminate other religions, but absorb their best elements, he added...
...even compelled the conquered Idumeans to become Jews and undergo circumcision. But in the main, Judaism has been the religion of one people, its heart being the covenant between God and Israel. Some day, according to the bulk of Jewish tradition, that covenant will include all mankind. In the meantime converts are traditionally discouraged, and conversion merely for the sake of marriage is expressly forbidden...
...salvation-the idea that has enabled so many Christians to look upon missions as a kind of rescue work. Judaism recognizes all righteous men as sharing in the world to come; non-Jews need only obey the "Seven Laws of Noah"-the covenant God made with all mankind-instead of the 365 negative and 248 positive injunctions of the Jewish...