Word: mankind
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...arranged days, but the British had no difficulty finding him at King's College. At first he denied everything, but when confronted with evidence of his complicity, he confessed: "I only embarked on it because I felt this was a contribution I could make to the safety of mankind." He refused to name his contacts. May, then 34, was tried in London in May 1946 and sentenced to ten years in prison. He was the first major atom spy to be convicted...
...French-born Dr. Dubos should go much of the credit for sparking the development of antibiotics-among them streptomycin, first and still the best of the "miracle drugs" which fight TB. But in The White Plague (Little. Brown; $4), Rene and Jean Dubos urge mankind to stop thinking of the disease in terms of drugs and individual patients: "Tuberculosis is a social disease and presents problems that transcend the conventional medical approach . . . The impact of social and economic factors [must] be considered as much as the mechanisms by which tubercle bacilli cause damage to the human body. On the other...
Intellectual training is more essential to every citizen than it has ever been in the history of mankind, and its importance grows with every year." But the alarming truth, says Bestor, is that educators today are all too ready to accept the unproved proposition that some 60% of American high-school students are incapable of absorbing such training. In report after report, they suggest that the majority of Americans are doomed to intellectual mediocrity, "destined from birth to be hewers of wood and drawers of water to a select few." As a result of this notion, high-school curricula...
...idealism, the modern religions fall far short of Christianity. "Social justice, democracy and world peace are no doubt well enough in their way," but they are at best "fragments" and, often, "secularized substitutes for the Christian hope." It is unrealistic to think that political and administrative machinery can weld mankind into "a rationalized mass without first transforming [it] into a fellowship." Here again a substitute religion has too limited a goal, hardly the advance on Christianity that it hoped to be. Concludes Author Casserley: "Surpassed Christianity indeed! We have none of us yet caught up with...
...custodians of civilization's attics must be knowledgeable men, able to tell a hawk from a handsaw, for their yesterday goes back to history's dawn, and their attic's room-like their budget -is strictly limited. Peering at relics is an increasingly popular pastime, for mankind is increasingly curious about the past, and its tenacious connection with the present. This is the case for museums...