Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These Stories of Changing Forms, however brutal, point the moral of Ovid's poem. Mankind is punished for the great sin which the Greeks called hubris-overweening pride. "I am too great for Fortune's power to injure," says arrogant Niobe, proud mother of seven sons and seven daughters. The boast is scarcely uttered, when Apollo looses 14 fatal arrows from his bow. "She would have been happiest of all mothers," comments Ovid, "had she only not thought herself the happiest." Over and above the turn of Fortune's wheel, there is an inexorable change-the passage...
With this capital, now more than half a billion dollars, the Ford Foundation is in a unique position--how can it spend its money to the maximum benefit of mankind. Its major problem is not lack of funds, but rather where to spend its money to yield the greatest return...
Even seventh graders, according to the teachers' manual, can be brought to understanding that "they share sin with all mankind." Throughout the course of the year they may be brought back again and again to the realization that fear, deceit, stubbornness and disobedience all stem from self-concern and self-will. "Then they will be ready for the knowledge that this is what we mean by 'original...
...will of the late Eugene Higgins, the income must be used "to foster education in natural and physical science, to promote the general advancement of science by investigation, research, and experiment, and to encourage the application of the knowledge so obtained to the improvement and benefit of mankind...
...will of George Ledlie '84, a journalist, the University will henceforth award $1000 every two years to the individual at Harvard who, in the University's judgement, "has by research, discovered or otherwise made the most valuable contribution to science, or in any way for the benefit of mankind...