Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before he died, Sloane willed his knick knackatory to the British nation, to be preserved for "the glory of God . .. and benefit of mankind." George II accepted, and the museum opened...
Years before Jung invented a "collective unconscious," Kipling was exploring, in Wireless, what he described as "the main-stream of subconscious thought common to all mankind." In The Brushwood Boy, he built a boy-meets-girl idyll around the notion that dreams may be shared though the dreamers be continents apart. In Love-o'-Women and On Greenhow Hill, he managed to rate love higher than etiquette; and in Without Benefit of Clergy he actually sang a tender hymn to miscegenation...
...Rhode Island. So says the Carnegie Institution, in a report on the possibility of extracting foodstuffs from algae. The protein would be produced by growing one-celled algae (closely related to the green scum that forms on stagnant ponds) in "farms" resembling chemical factories, which may some day provide mankind with almost unlimited food...
...reasoning behind Ottaviani's view is an old and deeply rutted road in Catholic polity. God. the reasoning holds, gave mankind the truth once and for all in Jesus Christ; the Roman Catholic Church was established by Christ as the single possessor of that complete truth. It is wrong, then, for the possessor of the truth, whether an individual or a group, to foster the promulgation of error, or to permit it, except for strong reasons, when it has the clear power to prevent it. Any non-Catholic religion, it argues, is error. Therefore a Catholic government...
When Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet sat down 17 years ago to write Biological Aspects of Infectious Disease, there was an abundance of knowledge about the nature of most of mankind's ills, but a dearth of specific remedies. Now, thanks to the sulfas and antibiotics, the picture is so different that Burnet, rewriting his book completely as The Natural History of Infectious Disease (Cambridge University Press; $4.50) can make the revolutionary statement: "It is not too much to say that at the present time no acute infection occurring in a previously healthy individual will result in his death...