Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture unfolds of a day of unchecked productivity, where wealth was the reward of ingenuity, and the common good was the result of wealth, when patents, like decorations for heroism, were signed by the President, and the capitalist who backed a new mechanical device to better the lot of mankind (and make a private fortune) was the equal of a general, a commissar, a duke, or a mechanic...
...with a glory and an honor and a prestige such as perhaps no nation has ever enjoyed in history. But from a material economic point of view she will be a poor country. She has put her body and soul and everything into it to win the battle of mankind. She will have won it, but she will come out of it poor in substance...
...Berlin radio broadcast the Nazis' latest threat : The German High Command "intends by one fell, drastic stroke to end the unbridled mass murder. . . . Mankind is not far from the point where it can, at will, blow up half the globe. The retaliation will be so powerful and will be started at such a psychologically opportune moment as to influence the development of the war." But the Germans could no longer promise bomb for bomb. Said Berlin: "It would be superfluous to retaliate for ruins with ruins. The sense of retaliation will find quite a different and surprising expression spiritually...
...down on our knees . . . and worship the Common Man. . . . Well, I am an old man, and old men are not ready converts to new religions. This one does not stir my soul.... I like to think that on the morning of January the first, in the year 2000, mankind will be free to . . . rise from its knees and look about it for some other, and perhaps more rational, form of faith. I like also to think that ... in the great pale platitude of the meantime, there will be, as hitherto, a few . . . people likely to read ... the works of Lytton...
They strive for mankind's utmost good...