Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prophet H. G. Wells, 79, who foresaw the atom bomb 31 years ago, predicted the imminent end of mankind. In his latest book, Mind at the End of its Tether, written last year and serialized in British and U.S. newspapers last week, he wrote: "Homo sapiens, as he has been pleased to call himself is, in his present form, played out. The stars in their courses have turned against man and he has to give place to some other animal, better adapted to the fate that closes in. This new animal may be of an entirely alien strain...
...third alternative, and Stassen's choice: ". . . Placing the control of the atomic bomb definitely on the world level . . . one additional powerful reason for developing a new and higher level of Government to serve mankind...
...seemed to remember that he was one of the 23 Germans who stood indicted for high crimes against all mankind, and that he would go on trial with the rest unless he was proved insane...
...every living thing is man's brother. They are thus careful not to harm any form of animal life, even the smallest insects. Gandhi once (1928) offended them deeply by killing a helplessly maimed calf. The Jains are humane to women & children but take a dim view of mankind in general: billions of years ago humanity was very good, they say, but in less than 40,000 years from now, all men, having reached the bottom of a "bad" cycle, will be less than one foot tall...
...this argument the four books listed above are a current contribution. Each of them reveals something about Russia-the force which Henry Adams, one of the shrewdest of U.S. historians and political observers, once saw in the chilling terms of creeping "ice-cap" and "inertia." Part of mankind has long regarded this force as a prime political danger. Part of mankind has long regarded it as its great political hope. Each of these books, in its way, suggests the degree in which man's hope is congealing into man's fate...