Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, Feb. 24). In it he assembled impressive scientific and mathematical data to demonstrate that life could not have been the result of a chance combination of elements. Life, he said, must have been created for some long-range purpose. This purposiveness Scientist du Noüy called "telefinality." Mankind-the highest and most complex life-form of all-must, he believed, go on developing in the direction of spirituality, as exemplified by Christ...
...Remember. . . ." Consciousness of one's tremendous responsibility in the great evolutionary process was to him the mark of a more highly evolved human being: "Let every man remember that the destiny of mankind is incomparable, and that it depends greatly on his will to collaborate in the transcendent task. . . . And let him above all never forget that the divine spark is in him, in him alone, and that he is free to disregard it, to kill it, or to come closer to God by showing his eagerness to work with...
...massive Metropolitan, they decided, should concern itself with "classic" art (denned as art which "has become part of the cultural history of mankind"). The glassy, faddish Museum of Modern Art took for its bailiwick everything "still significant in the contemporary movement." And Greenwich Village's Whitney Museum-the youngest of the three, and something of a poor relation at the conference table-agreed to stick...
Joseph Stalin issued a birthday proclamation: "[Moscow represents] the liberation movement of toiling mankind from capitalist slavery. . . . Agents of imperialism are trying, in this way and that, to provoke a new war. [But] it is known that peace-loving peoples are looking to Moscow with hope as the capital of a great peace-loving power and as a mighty pillar of peace...
...means that he also believes in sin and in the Devil. After sneezing, he was once heard to murmur that it was "because of the Fall." He was referring, not to the season, but to the Fall of Man, which Christian theology holds responsible for the major disorders of mankind. Lewis is scornful of many modern intellectual and moral fashions: he thinks a Christian can do worse than imagine God as a fatherly ancient with a white beard. He writes...