It was given and assigned to us, and we read in it the original text of our destiny, which proclaims to mankind salvation or disaster--according as we will it!
German thought in the civilized world, and thus check the general progress of mankind in its healthy development, for which a flourishing Germany is the essential condition.
War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankindwhich cannot be dispensed with.
The laws which govern the appearance of fairies to mankind or their commerce with men and women seem to be conditioned by the ability of men to perceive them.
Or, to think of the other extreme, gigantic visions of mankind crushed by the Juggernaut of war and then blessed by the angel of peace may arise before our eyes with all their spiritual meaning.
Many of his lucubrations would have been published and preserved, for the benefit of mankind and for his honor, if such a club had existed.
America would yet be possessed of great resources, and, capable of great exertions, as mankind would see.
Where the scourge of God and the plague of mankind is gone, no one can guess.
It is from a wide and extensive view of mankind that a just and true estimate can be formed of the powers of human nature.
Mankind are too selfish and too depraved to discern the pure gold from the baser metal.
He is generally an idealist, having a keen sense of the miseries of mankind and very imperfect notions as to the difficulty of peacefully and permanently ending them.
A vast mass of mankind are degradedly thrown into the background of the human picture, to bring forward with greater glare the puppet show of State and aristocracy.
By teaching mankind that they are all equal in rights, you have dedicated a glorious edifice to Liberty, which must hereafter prove the dungeon of tyrants and the asylum of the oppressed.
The pride justified by his birth had led him from one lofty deed to another, and he could not help carrying his head so high, for how far all the rest of mankindlay beneath him!
It is a necessary virtue to all; and however the shallow part of mankindmay despise it, it certainly leads to independence, which is a grand object to every man of a high spirit.
Johnson, "such characters of heroes and combination of qualities of heroes, that the united powers of mankind ever since have not produced any but what are to be found there.
The ancients had a motto "Know thyself," and the great poet Pope tells us that "the proper study of mankind is man.
This custom and polygamy gave much trouble to the Jesuits, but their most admirable patience and knowledge of mankind helped them to overcome them by degrees.
A rogue in politics is but a man who disagrees with you; but, still, it wanted no little knowledge of mankind to present a daily task to men, unversed in any kind of labour, as of the nature of a pleasure in itself.
The generality of mankind have reason enough to deprecate a sudden death, lest it should surprise them in one of their many unguarded hours.
For what purpose has the unanimous consent of mankind required some period of time to elapse, after the offer has been made, before it is formally, and for life decided?
It is on this kind of testimony that the generality of mankind believe in the motions of the earth, and of the heavenly bodies, &c.
If the difference of capacity, and the prejudices and passions of mankind be duly weighed, we shall not account it strange if they do not all think alike, nor receive the truth in all its purity.
Such are the advantages which mankind will derive from the French revolution.
As an author, therefore, and he now ceases to influence mankind in any other character, if one piece which he had resolved to suppress be excepted, he has very little to fear from the strictest moral or religious censure.
It does not appear that, after this return of his wants, he found mankind equally favourable to him, as at his first appearance in the world.
The perverseness of mankind makes it often mischievous in men of eminence to give way to merriment; the idle and the illiterate will long shelter themselves under this foolish apophthegm.
Footnote 59: As it is a loss to mankind when any good action is forgotten, I shall insert another instance of Mr. Wilks's generosity, very little known.
Among the accumulating trophies of their progressive intellectual conquests hung up by mankind in the historic hall of experience, this marvellous achievement is one of the sublimest.
The belief of mankind that a soul or ghost survives the body has been so nearly universal as to appear like the spontaneous result of an instinct.
An honest historical criticism forces us, however reluctantly, to loose our hold from the various supposed localities of the soul's destination, which have pleased the fancies and won the assent of mankind in earlier times.
All mankind would indignantly denounce him with an instinctive recognition of his wickedness in thus erecting the profane standard of pecuniary gain above the sacredness of the lives of his brothers.
Yet a few such there are, who seem delighted as by their dismal theory they bury mankind in an iron tomb of materialism and inscribe on the irrevocable door the solitary words, Fate and Silence.
The third theory a pantheistic absorption the irresistible common sense of mankind repudiates as a morbid dream.
The reaping angels are the Roman and Jewish armies, and other kindred agencies and collisions in the destined evolution of the fortunes of Christianity and mankind in the future.
Many men of science firmly believe that our world is destined to be destroyed, that a close for the earthly fortunes of mankind can be plainly foreseen.
The devil who builds bridges does not span such chasms till much that is precious to mankindhas vanished down them for ever.
In every age prosperity is taken as a matter of course, and, in defiance of all experience, mankind reserves its surprise for distress.
Let Fortune roll the nations of the earth In one red ruin; myriads of mankind See their last sun to-day.
Twas his alone Who hated not, nor loved, for all mankind To mourn alike.
These hands shall do Such work as not the rolling centuries Not all mankind though free from sword and war Shall e'er make good.
From mankind Cut off, this quarter, teeming thus with pests She gave to snakes, and to the barren fields Denied the husbandman, nor wished that men Should perish by their venom.
Me sought he not, but rather, for his life, This Pharian vassal; snatching from mankind The happy morning which had shown the world A peace between us.
Yet worse disasters may our fears suggest, For now with greater carnage ofmankind The rival hosts in weightier battle meet.
There are charlatans and know nothings in every pursuit, but in mine they effect so seriously the temporal and may be eternal welfare of mankind that their existence is awful to contemplate.
They do not object to finding fault with mankind because "you can't change human nature," as they are fond of telling you with an interesting air of originality.
It's simply that he's so deeply absorbed in his great work for mankind that he doesn't realize what he is asking Helen to do.
Verily it is not a small matter, and it includes many things for which we and all mankind owe them a debt of gratitude.
The Lord chose them out to prepare the hearts of mankind for the good tidings, and make them fit to receive the gospel when the Star should rise over Bethlehem.
Mankind will always prefer books which move to those which instruct--ennui being more burdensome than ignorance.
A bulwark existed between the body ofmankind and the reflecting few.
Mankind being prone to love, of all the phantoms which rush on our imagination during night, none return so frequently as the forms of the fair.
The mind of the multitude was enriched by the contemplation of superior intellect, and mankind were, to a certain extent, united by the reception of similar impressions, and the excitement of similar emotions.
A troop of brood mares, with foals at heel, were emulating mankind by neglecting the lush pastures at their feet and craning their graceful necks over a palisade to nibble the thorn hedge it protected.
Pitching his tent where he listed, Power saw mankind in the mass.
Don't forget that the proper study of mankind is man--and woman.
With insects, out of the caterpillar comes the butterfly; with mankind it is the other way round, out of the butterfly comes the caterpillar.
O, happy coin, which furnishes mankind with a pleasant and useful beverage and keeps its possessors immune from the hell-born pest of avarice, since it can not be either buried or preserved long.
Say; the latter maintained that if we consider a nation as a whole, or mankind in abstracto―her production is at the same time her consumption.
On the contrary, when it comes to distribution, mankind is supposed to have indulged in all sorts of arbitrary action.
And now I saw how easy it was for the providence of God to make even the most miserable condition of mankind worse.
Believe me, I am doing nothing and want nothing, except to prove my love for mankindin every possible way.
I confess, sir, that if all mankind shared your views, I would rather live with my prisoners in this dungeon than in the outside world!
Do not judge them too harshly, your Highness, for the majority of mankind are fettered by anxieties concerning their means of livelihood.
The various essays which are brought together under this title discuss questions of theology, and the opinions which mankind hold upon the most interesting philosophical and spiritual themes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mankind" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clay; flesh; homo; human; humanity; man; manhood; men; mortality; society
