Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ethnologists of the Smithsonian Institution agree with Pope that "the proper study of mankind is man," and that no detail is too small to be recorded. Recently, in dedication to this proposition, they offered a weighty work: The Marginal Tribes-Vol. I of their monumental Handbook of South American Indians (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington; $2.75). In its closely printed pages, readers could study the childhood...
...would otherwise have been lost. God grant that we might have had this bomb at the start of the conflict. God grant that this nation have such a weapon as this if & when our enemies feel the time is ripe to strike another blow at Freedom and mankind...
Alfred Nobel, the Swedish munitions king who endowed the prizes that bear his name, directed that they be given "to those who had most contributed to the benefit of mankind during the preceding year." But in times as touchy as these, for awards as political as Peace and Literature, the Scandinavian selectors prefer to play much safer than that. Last week they chose for Peace two Americans who were more active during World War I than after World War II-and for Literature a German who left his native land not under Hitler but under the Kaiser...
...poet whom few Americans have read; Stockholm's Aftontidningen found his selection "inscrutable." The secretary of the Swedish Academy gave a clue to the enigma by praising him as "one of those who first eluded German suppression of a free opinion." The gist of Hesse's opinion: mankind, though weak and imperfect, must meet the challenge of 20th Century chaos and by undiscouraged effort try to create whatever areas of meaningful existence...
...Adyar, Madras-that the pattern of the Society began to crystallize. Here she accumulated Theosophy's assorted bag of borrowings from Buddhism, Hinduism, yoga, the cabala. Here she incorporated the key Theosophist doctrine of reincarnation and developed to the full her hierarchy of "Masters"-Tibetan superbeings who guide mankind through Theosophy...