Word: humanation
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...valuable instruments and the headquarters of Professor Bailey, who is in charge of the astronomical work. In the upper station recording instruments of far less cost are placed, and these are visited once in each ten days by one of Professor Bailey's assistants. At such an elevation, no human being could remain and live; but the results, already obtained under the necessary conditions, have been very valuable...
...deceased was the motive in the cultus of the dead. Food was often forced into the mouths of the corpses and left with the bodies in the tombs. From providing food for the dead it was a simple transition to supply them with other comforts. Scores of human beings were sacrificed in order to add splendor to the entry of the dead into the new existence...
...hardly needs to call attention, he said, to the importance of the subject of immortality. It has a touch of humanity about it that must awaken our sympathy. In this course the roots of belief in the soul will be investigated, not through modern psychology but through the early experience of the human race...
History is a record of men's progress in different ways. From these we shall isolate progress in religious ideas, see what sentiments they create, how they affect human institutions, and how dependent they are on the conditions of thought and feeling out of which they arise and in which they exist...
...have long ago lost my sight, but I love to sit here and recall it, and think that it is all there." It lies in our own choice with what pictures we may fill our minds, whether our inward eye shall command noble prospects over the whole domain of human thoughts, or shall be bounded by the narrow alley of a merely utilitarian training...