Word: humanitis
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...whether it answers the demands of a man's nature. Man asks for but a word as a blessing from God, and in what manner is this message put before men(?) We do not want an answer to our demands which is so much divine and so much human, which divides itself into such components. Rather do we want such an answer as comes in the form of a living presence which inspires and helps us. Since we cannot improve upon the religion of Christ, let us use it. What Heaven is to be hereafter, we cannot imagine, but what...
...Zeus. He was the lightning god and various other functions were grouped around this one. The fear of lightning was very great among the Romans, and they held a lightning stroke to be a serious mark of the god's anger To appease it the necessary expiation was originally human sacrifices...
...George A. Gordon, of Boston conducted the services at Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon. He took for the general subject of his address "rectitude, humanity and piety" and considered human life and ways of living from these three standpoints, laying especial stress upon rectitude and piety. He said that piety is too often assumed. There are too many young men who think that religion is superficial, that it may be put on at will, and put off at will as best suits his convenience. But a true, deep-feeling religious life consists rather in a life of just relations...
...speaker began by defining the Darwinian doctrine of evolution as the theory that man is decended from the ape, and said that in tracing the influence of this theory upon our ideas of moral and human life, he would group his work under the following heads: 1, Man's place in Nature; 2, The evolution of morals, 3, The nature of God; 4, Life and immortality. Every great religion has asserted that the arrival of man marked the final and highest stage of creation. In fact, the promise of immortality held out by every creed depends directly upon this assumption...
Matthew Arnold considered the Bible to be "the book of the people" and thought that no book in its diffusing power, its power of arousing creative ideas, in its power of appealing to the highest conceptions of the soul, and arousing the noblest and sweetest emotions that a human being is capable of the Bible is pre-eminent among all books of all ages...