Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...such a system as this continues and flourishes, which most practical men have long scorned with an immeasurable contempt, do not let us consider that we have advanced a single step in reforming education, to reform which, in the words of Leibnitz, is to reform society and to reform mankind...
...which did not prohibit unfair play, because it is always possible that some "rough" or "sharper" may make unfair plays. One might as well, following their line of thought, give up the Christian religion because of the ten commandments; or like St. Simon Shylites, withdraw from the society of mankind and sit on the top of a pillar because of our criminal laws. Foot-ball can never be anything but a rough, manly sport. For my part I am unwilling to believe that any such low spirit has crept into the game so as to make it dishonest and vicious...
...what chances or reports there are of any other world besides this; what seems to be the nature of that other world. Thirdly what he had best do under the circumstances-that is to say, what kind of faculties he possesses; what are the present state and wants of mankind; what is his place in society; and what are the readiest means in his power of attaining happiness and diffusing it. The man who knows these things, and who has his will so subdued in the learning of them that he is ready to do what he knows he ought...
...ignorance and pauperism. The question of temperance is no namby-pamby affair, no goody goody subject. It is a great question of political economy, of history, of ethics, of decency, of the purity of politics, of the preservation of the state, and of the preservation of the character of mankind...
...knowledge, when renowned, are known as savants, are generally members of the Academie de Paris, and amuse themselves by appearing two or three times a week at the College de France or Sorbonne, where they pour forth masses of diverse knowledge to a most strange and motley mixture of mankind - of all nationalities - ranging from fifteen to eighty years of age. At the hour appointed for his lecture, the professor, generally attired in full dress, makes his appearance through a special door at the back, seats himself, mixes his sugar and water, rids himself as rapidly as possible...