Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been painfully sketching the personal sins and follies of a weak man . . . Out of my weakness and folly (but also out of my strength), I committed the characteristic crimes of my century . . . the first century since life began when a decisive part of the most articulate section of mankind has not merely ceased to believe in God, but has deliberately rejected God. And it is the century in which this religious rejection has taken a specifically political form, so that the characteristic experience of the mind in this age is a political experience. At every point, religion and politics...
...there seemed no possibility that I would not continue to live out my life as such a man. Habit and self-interest both presumed it. I had been for 13 years a Communist; and in Communism could be read, more clearly with each passing year, the future of mankind, as. with each passing year, the free world shrank in power and faith . . . Yet, in 1938, I gave a different ending to that life...
...American now alive . . . Their names, with half a dozen exceptions, still mean little or nothing to the mass of Americans. But their activities, if only in promoting the triumph of Communism in China, have decisively changed the history of Asia, of the U.S., and therefore, of the world. If mankind is about to suffer one of its decisive transformations, if it is about to close its 2,000-year-old experience of Christian civilization, and enter upon another wholly new and diametrically different, then that group may claim a part in history such as it is seldom given...
...unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other.' Not so that your enemy may strike you again do you turn the other cheek . . . but to make him unable to do it." Naturalist Lorenz, drawing a moral, says that the day may come when mankind will be divided into two camps, each with the power of destroying the other. "Shall we then behave like doves or wolves? . . . We may well be apprehensive...
Through the growing darkness of the little panel wherein she holds court, Mona Lisa keeps smiling silently on mankind. In illuminating one by one her amber facets, the critics have only succeeded in making her more dazzlingly mysterious...