Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred and seventy-one years ago, an American nation started its span of history. Two million Americans issued a call that stirred the political consciousness of mankind...
...Britain and France and the nations of Western Europe. But the final step was up to the U.S. people, who would be called upon to underwrite the Marshall Plan. In the course of human events, it had once again become necessary to stir the political consciousness of mankind...
...apartment downstairs-or a family uncomfortably like his own. Looking at a tiger, he can feel weak, unarmed and humble; at a gorilla, helpless; at an echidna (a mammal that lays eggs), vastly superior. Zoo men have built their exhibits on the proposition that if the proper study of mankind is man, a subsidiary and equally wholesome occupation is the contemplation of the lower animals...
Viruses are the cause of some of mankind's most deadly epidemic diseases-e.g., influenza, yellow fever, smallpox, infantile paralysis. But until a few years ago, nobody had ever seen a virus. Now, thanks to the electron microscope which makes them visible, biologists are able to study the viruses' submicroscopic world...
...issue is not the issue of economic communism against capitalism, or state socialism against free enterprise. It is not an issue of relative national power. Those are not moral issues. The moral issue is the issue of the free state as against the police state. . . . The overwhelming majority of mankind does not want to be subjected...