Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman, a very plain man indeed, who had never sought or dreamed of being Man of the Atomic Year, had been cast up to his position by an accident of the tides, by the shifting forces of politics. In the same startled and unpremeditated fashion, mankind itself, shrinking from the shadow of Hiroshima, dwarfed by the Event of 1945, had got where...
...purpose of science is to extend our knowledge and thereby our control of the forces of nature. The whole history of civilization is witness to the compelling necessity of this process. Any danger to mankind lies in the destructive use of discoveries which could have been used for its benefit. It does not lie in the discoveries themselves, least of all in the possibility that they may get physically out of control as you suggest in your article...
...Gospels are the last marvelous expression of the Greek genius, as the IIiad is the first: here the Greek spirit reveals itself not only in the injunction given mankind to seek above all other goods, 'the kingdom and justice of our Heavenly Father,' but also in the fact that human suffering is laid bare, and we see it in a being who is at once divine and human. The accounts of the Passion show that a divine spirit, incarnate, is changed by misfortune, trembles before suffering and death, feels itself, in the depths of its agony...
...strenuous earthly labors led to her founding of the order of Discalced Carmelites; her ecstatic transports made her _one of the world's great mystic poets. Half genius of the supernatural, half militant nun, Theresa's gifts to posterity have become part of "the inalienable possessions of mankind...
...genesis of a type that was common in pre-atomic civilization-the liberal who had become a revolutionist without realizing that he had ceased to be a liberal. He is explaining how one great category of liberal minds-the scientists-came to make the atom bomb and how liberal mankind came to permit them to. He is explaining how you and I come to be here in this vast emptiness with night falling. But he can only explain. He cannot offer a counterpart, in the language and feeling of the atomic age, of the words of the Psalmist...