Word: humanitis
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...with a measuring line comes to us and lays down in accurate terms all the mountainous obstacles which lie in our path. The twelve disciples were sent out to convert the world; the same surveyor presented to them a careful estimate of the great indifference of the human race towards religion, the pagan armies of the mighty Roman Empire which must be overcome, but the little band of twelve did what they could from year to year until gradually the mountains crumbled away and the road lay level before them to the converting of the world...
...same trouble confronts us today under different aspects, in the struggle between labor and capital. The man with the measuring line comes with his same answer, the difficulty is insurmountable; it lies in human nature, but God is with the right and order will of necessity grow out of this perplexed struggle...
What makes an object picturesque, he said, is the first question to be solved, and it is a decidedly hard question to answer. Beauty is that quality which is constituted in rich, easy flowing lines,- the outline of the human figure, for example; but the picturesque is that subtle quality which results from nature's perfecting the crude attempts of man to produce beauty...
...caused in subsequent years. But discoveries in the Look-out and Nickajack caves near Knoxville, Tenn., furnish indisputable evidence that man lived there at the same time with the animals whose bones were found, such as deer, tortoise, elk, rabbit and many others. It is probable that the human beings who lived there had killed those animals for food, since the bones that were scattered about the fire-places were rarely gnawed by animals. Another important discovery was that of the extinct peccary, which has been found also in Hartman's cave, and of teeth of the tapir. The nature...
...worship God through the ideals of our own souls. Why then talk of worshipping God, rather than that power of goodness and truth which is in humanity? Certainly the latter would be better than worshiping a cold force outside of ourselves. Is there no alternative? Can we not worship the infinite through the best that is in the Human, and thus rise form the human to the divin? But in the way of the pilgrim who journeys toward the city of God stands the giant Anthropomorphism. The saying "These cannot be God, because the workman made them," is as true...