Use mankind in a sentence
Sentences ending with mankind
- It is a world calamity, indeed, but a calamity, since it has come, to be spiritualized and utilized for the benefit of the future society of mankind. [9]
- His remarkable talents won the love of the great Onuphis and he taught him all the Egyptian mysteries, which Pythagoras afterwards turned to account for the benefit of mankind. [10]
- The gate was wide open, and there sat-I knew him at once; who does not?--the Arch Enemy of mankind. [4]
- If this is true of all the narrower manifestations of human progress, how much more must it be true of those broad movements in the intellectual and spiritual domain which interest all mankind? [6]
- Our purpose is to note some of the tendencies of the dogma as it is at present understood by a considerable portion of mankind. [4]
- He knew him to be honest, kind, charitable, self-denying, wherever any sorrow was to be alleviated, always reverential, with a cheerful trust in the great Father of all mankind. [6]
- The main thing to be considered is that this great stream of thought is the highest achievement and the most valuable possession of mankind. [4]
- Later when she thought about the breaking of the phial, the conviction grew upon her limited intelligence that this accident would perhaps prove in the end to be the best thing that could have happened, not only for her but for all mankind. [10]
- The Grecian poet, Theognis, who lived 550 B.C., clearly saw how important selection, if carefully applied, would be for the improvement of mankind. [1]
- Philosophy deserted him then; he fell back on the primary emotions of mankind. [11]
Short sentences using mankind
- Old as mankind. [5]
- Love of mankind. [2]
Sentences containing mankind two or more times
- This argument, reduced to plain terms, is simply this: that the mass of mankind are unfit to decide properly their own political and social condition; and that for the mass of mankind any but a very limited mental development is to be deprecated. [4]
- The remembrance of such a distemper which has attacked mankind, especially mankind of the Parisian sub-species, came over me very strongly when I first revisited the Place Vendome. [6]
More example sentences with the word mankind in them
- But this world, where lying and deceit flourish, would be changed into a Paradise, and it would be an Ueberhell whom mankind would have to thank for the great blessing. [10]
- Once her Cause were perceived, once her whole energy were directed towards its fulfilment, the prophets would arise, out of the East and out of the West, to stir mankind to higher effort, to denounce fearlessly the shortcomings and evils of the age. [9]
- While the attorney was thus engaged, the dwarf was groping under the table, muttering desperate imprecations on himself, and mankind in general, and all inanimate objects to boot, which suggested to Mr Brass the question, 'what's the matter? [12]
- With all that was beautiful and true in the myths dear to mankind it did not conflict, annulling only the vicious dogmatism of literal interpretation. [9]
- But what I want to know is, whether what we call our civilization has done any thing more for mankind at large than to increase the ease and pleasure of living? [4]
- Now, whether this view is right or wrong, it is very certain that the great mass of mankind take a totally different view. [7]
- It may be very wrong to pay any attention to those speculations about the origin of mankind which seem to conflict with the Sacred Record. [6]
- Those who are urging with most ardor what are called the greatest benefit of mankind are narrow, self-pleasing, conceited men, and affect us as the insane do. [6]
- I am persistently undervalued, wronged, and imposed upon by mankind and the powers of the universe generally. [6]
- For a reply to these questions the common sense of mankind turns to the science of history, whose aim is to enable nations and humanity to know themselves. [2]
- Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread; and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope. [6]
- Did they belong to each other, or were mankind only, as it were, vermin infesting the desirable world? [11]
- He was ambitious to distinguish himself by some great service to mankind, and this ambition for fame and real public service left no room for avarice in his composition. [7]
- This was due to a variety of reasons or prejudices, not all of them creditable to a generous desire for the universal elevation of mankind, but one of them the historian will judge adequate to produce the result. [4]
- It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries--and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another. [2]
- But I don't think it degrades or endangers us, for this reason, that, while it makes us charitable to the rest of mankind, our own sense of freedom, whatever it is, is never affected by argument. [6]
- 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. [10]
- For a day the world stops to see it; the newspapers spread abroad a report of it, and the modest scholar feels that the eyes of mankind are fixed on him in expectation and desire. [4]
- History, that is, the unconscious, general, hive life of mankind, uses every moment of the life of kings as a tool for its own purposes. [2]
- She, too, despised the soldiers, fervently believed they had sold themselves to the oppressors of mankind. [9]
- He who prayed the prayer of all mankind Summed in those few brief words the mightiest plea For erring souls before the courts of heaven, Save us from being tempted,--lest we fall! [6]
- But could Orion, the noblest of mankind, the idol of the whole town, so pressingly entreat her to do anything that was wrong? [10]
- His life-work subordinated the material to the spiritual, and He left this legacy of truth to mankind. [5]
- Between these and the mass of mankind there is a want of approachability, if the term be admissible, partially, at least, fatal to their success. [7]
- As a rule the mass of mankind have been spot where they were born. [4]
- The doorkeeper of the House looked into his face, and, with that rare knowledge of mankind which doorkeepers possess, let him in. [9]
- In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind. [7]
- Not only are the fears of mankind the whip to scourge and the bridle to restrain them, but they are the basis of an almost incalculable material interest. [6]
- His face showed the effect of a sleepless night, and wore an expression inimical to all mankind. [9]
- The "Letters from the Earth" referred to in the following, were supposed to have been written by an immortal visitant from some far realm to a friend, describing the absurdities of mankind. [5]
- She bent over the calm river, and saw them shining in the same majestic order as when the dove beheld them gleaming through the swollen waters, upon the mountain tops down far below, and dead mankind, a million fathoms deep. [12]
- I have noticed that the Bible, with that plain, blunt honesty which is such a conspicuous characteristic of the Scriptures, is always particular to never refer to even the illustrious mother of all mankind as a "lady," but speaks of her as a woman. [5]
- I am afraid that half mankind would accuse me of stealing their thoughts, if I printed them. [6]
- It is popularly supposed that the disintegration and distribution of a great fortune, especially if it has been accumulated by doubtful methods, is a benefit to mankind. [4]
- All display in superfluous abundance the boundless credulity and excitability of mankind upon subjects connected with medicine. [6]
- The dogmas of such people about the Father of Mankind and his creatures are of no more account in my opinion than those of a council of Aztecs. [6]
- A collection of such documents, written by one whose life has become of interest to mankind at large, has a value quite aside from literature, in that it reflects in some degree at least the soul of the writer. [5]
- All civilized mankind stood mourning around the coffin of the dead President. [7]
- The Magdalene should speak for mankind, for the continuing world. [11]
- On the one side, not the warriors of a nation that has made its mark in war, but peaceful peasants who had sought this place for its remoteness from persecution, to live and die in harmony with all mankind. [9]
- It was thus she expressed her opinion of mankind in general, outside of her own family circle. [9]
- I can only say now, as I have often said before, it has always been a sentiment with me, that all mankind should be free. [7]
- When a man risks his life to save that of a fellow-creature, it seems also more correct to say that he acts for the general good, rather than for the general happiness of mankind. [1]
- The Indian was right--that would survive him on earth, and mankind would unite in cursing him. [10]
- This is a remarkable coincidence with what, as we have seen, occurs with mankind, and both cases probably depend on the same cause. [1]
- But one cannot remain permanently secluded from mankind. [10]
- Dr. Brown will publicly treat the most stubborn cases, laying himself open to the derision of mankind if he does not instantly give relief and benefit. [11]
- There in the Promised Land many centuries later was born, in Bethlehem, another Jehoshua who bestowed on all mankind what the son of Nun had vainly sought for the Hebrew nation. [10]
- It is also probable that the increased fertility of civilised nations would become, as with our domestic animals, an inherited character: it is at least known that with mankind a tendency to produce twins runs in families. [1]
- The persistence of privilege is an unexplained thing in human affairs, and the consent of mankind to be led in government and in fashion by those to whom none of the original conditions of leadership attach is a philosophical anomaly. [4]
- Is it good policy for mankind to subject themselves to such degrading vassalage and abject submission? [6]
- And it is pleasant to write down that they reared a family; because any propagation of goodness and benevolence is no small addition to the aristocracy of nature, and no small subject of rejoicing for mankind at large. [12]
- A thing of perfect beauty and of absolute finish in every detail, it might pass for the work of genii who knew naught of the weaknesses and ills with which mankind are beset. [5]
- She thought it over a little, and saw that in this precept--of which it was said that it was all the law and the prophets--there was in fact a rule which, if it were obeyed, must keep all mankind guiltless, and make every one happy. [10]
- The frontal sinus, or the projection over the eye-brows, is largely developed, and the jaws are prognathous to an "effrayant" degree; so that these idiots somewhat resemble the lower types of mankind. [1]
- A small number only of mankind ever see their eightieth anniversary. [6]
- There are some old pessimists, it is true, who believe that they and a few others are on a raft, and that the ship which they have quitted, holding the rest of mankind, is going down with all on board. [6]
- Two words, each of two letters, will serve to distinguish two classes of human beings who constitute the principal divisions of mankind. [6]
- He was master of the revels to mankind. [6]
- And the poison of the old serpent, which infected Adam when he fell into his Transgression, by hearkening to the Tempter, has corrupted all mankind, and is a seed unto such diseases as this Infant is now laboring under. [3]
- If one end of religion is to make men happier in this world as well as in the next, mankind lost a great source of happiness when the priest was reduced to the common level of humanity, and became only a minister. [6]
- The religious currency of mankind, in thought, in speech, and in print, consists entirely of polarized words. [6]
- The universal sense of mankind on any subject is an argument, or at least an influence, not easily overcome. [7]
- The great delusion of mankind is in supposing that to be individual and exceptional which is universal and according to law. [6]
- The great multitude of mankind care more for two and two, something definite, a fixed quantity, than for _a_ + _b's_ and _x^{2's}_,--symbols used for undetermined amounts and indefinite possibilities. [6]
- A great mass of it has been accumulated in the progress of mankind, and, fortunately for different wants and temperaments, it is as varied as the various minds that produced it. [4]
- A fair examination of history has served to authorize a belief that the past actions and influences of the United States were generally regarded as having been beneficial toward mankind. [7]
- The dried-leaf rustle of her silk dress was suggestive of the ripe autumn of life, bringing with it those golden fruits of wisdom and experience which the grave teachers of mankind so justly prefer to the idle blossoms of adolescence. [6]
- Are ministers composed of finer clay than the rest of mankind, that entitles them to this preeminence? [6]
- Nevertheless the Transgression of Adam, who had all mankind Foederally, yea, Naturally, in him, has involved this Infant in the guilt of it. [3]
- Exercise the gentleness of a father towards the rebels; they did not rise in mere self-will, but to gain their freedom, the most precious possession of mankind. [10]
- Of the three objects mentioned by the Rhetor, this last, that of improving mankind, especially appealed to Pierre. [2]
- Mrs. Brice did not, wherein she proved herself their superiors in the knowledge of mankind. [9]
- Verily it is not a small matter, and it includes many things for which we and all mankind owe them a debt of gratitude. [10]
- He said that men who had been cured by the other process were easily distinguished from the rest of mankind because they always tilted their heads back, between every two words, and swallowed a swig of imaginary whey. [5]
- The whole matter may be briefly stated thus: Edwards believed in an eternity of unimaginable horrors for "the bulk of mankind. [6]
- If we love mankind, pity them, we even wish to suffer for them. [8]
- The majority of mankind reverses this order of interests, and therefore it sets literature to one side as of no practical account in human life. [4]
- The majority of mankind live largely in the imagination, the office or use of which is to lift them in spirit out of the bare physical conditions in which the majority exist. [4]
- You can divide mankind in the same way, I said. [6]
- One portion of mankind go through life always regretting, always whining, always imagining. [6]
- The mountains dwarf mankind and foreshorten the procession of its long generations. [6]
- What a theology--that made the Creator and Preserver of all mankind thus illogical! [9]
- His intellect had made servants and lures of his emotions and his heart, for even his every case in court had been won by easy and selfish command of all those feelings in mankind which make possible personal understanding. [11]
- He who so loudly boasts his knowledge of mankind expects this impossibility from the woman who revealed her inmost soul to him as fully as he concealed his from her. [10]
- Truth might no longer be identified with Tradition, and the day was past when councils and synods might determine it for all mankind. [9]
- The apostles of light regard the rest of mankind as barbarians and Philistines, and the world retorts that these self-constituted apostles are idle word-mongers, without any sympathy with humanity, critics and jeerers who do nothing to make the conditions of life easier. [4]
- What we call life is divided into occupations and interest, and the horizons of mankind are bounded by them. [4]
- Faith will come later, when you learn how much medical science and art have actually achieved for the relief of mankind, and how great are the promises it holds out of still larger triumphs over the enemies of human health and happiness. [6]
- I have never known just such a case as my own, and yet there must have been such, and if the whole history of mankind were unfolded I cannot doubt that there have been many like it. [6]
- And which is it most desirable for mankind to have disproved or weakened, the grounds of the threat of M. Babinet, or those of the other infinitely more terrible comminations, so far as they rest on the authority of Jonathan Edwards? [6]
- And with democracy, it declares that mankind itself can gradually be rained towards the level of the choice individual who does not labour for gain, but in behalf of society. [9]
- The bishop, as is usual in such cases, speaks of himself as indispensably obliged, by the duty he owes to mankind, to make his experience public. [6]
- As every one is bound to preserve himself, so he is bound to preserve the rest of mankind, and except to do justice upon an offender we may not impair the life, liberty, health, or goods of another. [4]
- But of his inventive originality, his unconquerable perseverance, his devotion to the good of mankind, there can be no question. [6]
- One may be interested in mankind and still be philosophical--may be, as it were, the priest and confessor to all comers. [11]
- It was along in this wild country somewhere, and far from any habitation of white men, except the stage stations, that we came across the wretchedest type of mankind I have ever seen, up to this writing. [5]
- I have observed in many of the more refined animals this sort of shyness, and reluctance to give trouble, which excite our admiration when noticed in mankind. [4]
- I pictured them in a remote land, shunned by mankind. [9]
- And the unique impression of Jesus upon mankind, whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of this world, is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion. [6]
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