Word: humanitis
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...inhabitants of the northwestern section along the Pacific were the Aleuts and the western Esquimaux. They are characterized by their carvings of bone, ivory and stone, in which there is often a singular combination of human heads and animal bodies. They had no pottery and used instead vessels of wood, stone or basket work...
...become a monk in India it is necessary to loose all thought of the body; to look upon other human beings as souls...
Professor Royce has in the May Century a paper on "The Imitative Functions and Their Place in Human Nature," in which he sets forth the fascinating interest of his subject and calls for the help of the public in furnishing data for a more complete study...
...third Harvard speaker was W. C. Douglas, Jr. He asserted that the difference between the arguments of the opposing sides was that the affirmative assumed the perfection of human nature, while the negative ventured to declare its fallibility. In other countries the measure in question or similar measures had been tried and proved impracticable...
V.Piers Ploughman.In Dante we have had an example of a great national poet, and as contrasts are more striking than parallels-if, indeed, when we treat of so wayward a thing as human nature it be possible to find two lines of life that run parallel-I turned from him to Petrarch and the sentimentalists. The comparison enables us to feel more keenly the difference between real heartwood and veneer, between a poem made out of a true life, and a false life attempted to be made into a poem. I shall turn back today to a poem as sincere...