Word: humanation
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Paul had a knowledge which we cannot find today among men. In knowing Christ he was not narrow; he knew God, he knew more of human nature than any one of us, his knowledge of ethics was greater than that of any man before him and he knew more of the life eternal, and all this from his study of Christ. From the crucifixion he learned the great truths of self-denial and self renunciation...
...never alone. Human life is begun in society, in a social group, of at least three, the father, mother, and the child itself, and as it grows, its group broadens, and its absorption of outside influences increases, till isolation is absolutely impossible...
...analogy between him and the social body must be limited. Hobbs, however, states the very opposite. He declares that the social life is entirely artificial, that the natural state is one of isolation; a commonwealth makes an artificial man. But this commonwealth must surely be the inevitable condition of human life; the natural man of Hobbs would only have the desolate freedom of a wild ass. So man stands by his very nature in the midst of a social condition, and it is his best course to adjust himself to it, not to try to escape it. His right conduct...
...parable in Jeremiah of the potter's house. In the parable there is an obvious object lesson. There are three things necessary for the formation of a bit of pottery, the clay, the wheel and the potter's hand. So it is in the formation of a human being; there is the body and the mind corresponding to the clay, experience, environment, corresponding to the wheel, God, back of all the work, corresponding to the potter...
...there is an exhortation as well as an object lesson in the parable. Unlike the clay the human being has power to resist the operation of the wheel and the potter's hand. A man predetermins his own course. He may from choice make himself, against conscience and God, bad. The responsibility, then, rests on each of us to cooperate with, rather than resist the forces which are shaping our lives...