Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good or Evil? What will this knowledge mean to mankind, which lives in fear and bewilderment of the knowledge it already has? Raymond B. Fosdick, president of the Rockefeller Foundation (which financed the telescope), told the scientists gathered on Palomar Mountain...
Reading through your valuable news magazine, and through other American organs, I am not too amazed to find the current supposition that Americans have now become the world's champion philanthropists, and the only saviors of sorrowing mankind...
...this institutions and nearly no Germans knew what happened there, but now all men in the Eastern part of Germany and in the Western too know, that more than 16 concentration-camps with more than 80,00 inhabitants exist in the Russian zone and yet another difference, the whole mankind was terrified about the abominations in this camps but this was only a fly to an elephant, what happens now. Nearly to men died in one camp on every day by hunger and strokes and other inhumanities, you must now not believe that this is blown...
Little Mammal, What Now? Even if the bomb falls, muses Author Toynbee there is still a grain of hope. The people most likely .to survive and to be capable of salvaging "some fraction of the present heritage of mankind" are the Negrito pygmies of Central Africa -a race "said by our anthropologists to have an unexpectedly pure and lofty conception of the nature of God and of God's relation...
...world. ... If we can bring ourselves to think of it, instead, as one of the vain repetitions of the Gentiles-an almost meaningless repetition of something that the Greeks and Romans did before us and did supremely well-then the greatest new event in the history of mankind will be seen to be a very different one. The greatest new event will then not be the monotonous rise of yet another secular civilization out of the bosom of the Christian church . . . it will still be the Crucifixion and its spiritual consequences...