Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pursuit of happiness as an inalienable right of mankind is an idea almost unrecognized in the development of other nations, but powerful in all aspects of American life. Happiness as a right first appeared in the pre-revolutionary Virginia Resolves, gained its most popular form in the Declaration of Independence, was cut out of the Constitution, but has bobbed up ever since as something to which all American felt they were entitled, but which none were able to define in the same terms...
...proper study of mankind may be man, but writers from Aesop to George Orwell have found animals just as handy. Latest to study mankind by animal roundabout is French-born Novelist Raoul Faure, 43, a resident of California since 1941, who uses lizards for his parable, The Cave and the Rock...
...Invaded Whom? With all the assurance of a Renaissance pope issuing a bull, Toynbee first divides contemporary mankind into two blocs: on one hand, the World; on the other, the West. The West, like its principal challenger, Russia, is an "ex-Christian" civilization. But not only is the West without a faith; it is "the arch-aggressor of modern times." The World, and especially Russia, "invaded by Western armies overland in 1941, 1915, 1812, 1709 and 1610," has reason to mistrust the West. Toynbee avoids embarrassing this general thesis by any mention of the invasions of the West...
...projecting its influence into the schools, the factories, every walk of life. Even this effort may not succeed. "It may be," writes Dibelius, "that the church of Jesus Christ has but the same task as the chaplain in a prison where those condemned to death are kept: to prepare mankind...
...foreign political line. We are still without protection against threats from the East ... We Germans have nothing, really nothing, to protect our country. All this will be changed quickly and fundamentally after the ratification of the treaties. We will be secure and included in the greatest defense organization which mankind has created. [We can help] save Europe from threatening ruin and decay...