Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there died in a West England village a clergyman named Thomas Robert Malthus, whose bequest to mankind was a somber prophecy that the human race faced strangulation by graphs and curves. The world's population would threaten to outgrow its supply of food, said Malthus, whereupon pestilence, famine and war would follow. During the following century, the world's population did increase, from one billion to more than two billion, but it was amply taken care of by the development of new foods from new lands, by more intensive cultivation...
...production declined by 5%, whereas the population increased by 10%, and it was upon these figures that William Vogt (Road to Survival, TIME, Nov. 8, 1948) and Fairfield Osborn (Our Plundered Planet) based predictions of mass starvation. Last week, however, the world learned that the neo-Malthusians were wrong: mankind, more numerous than ever before, had more to eat than ever before.* The rate of increase of the production of food now exceeds the rate of increase of the free world population...
...beings. Christ, he writes, is certainly their head, for according to St. Paul, He is the head of the universe. But "the question remains open whether He also has the significance of Redeemer for them. That in turn depends on whether these rational creatures have sinned and whether, like mankind, they need redeeming...
...they, too. are to be redeemed through Christ, this does not mean that the heavenly Logos must appear amongst them as it did in the history of mankind. It could be that the redemption through Christ could be preached to them by some messenger of the faith without [Christ] making any visible appearance to them. But it is also possible that God did not give these creatures any supernatural goal and that He determined for them natural perfection...
...Norman Vincent Peale. The saddest of them is a tycoon named Henry J. Baxter, who dies hilariously, falling down on the path to his $3,000,000 private bomb shelter because he just would not believe that the Russians developed the H-bomb for the benefit of mankind. Other characters in Fast's America are the clear-eyed, noble, tragic men who populate the bulging political prisons. If there is one thing Author Fast knows, it is where the grapes of wrath are stored. When he is not busy explaining that Christ and Tom Paine felt just...