Human-race Sentence Examples

Boswell's Life of Johnson gives an account of the lexicographer's visit to Burnett at Monboddo, and is full of references to the natural contemporary view of a man who thought that the human race could be descended from monkeys.

He asked for the secret contained in the conduct and sayings of this man which made him the hope of the human race.

The earliest social organization of the human race was characterized by the absence of the institution of marriage in any form.

After a lengthy development in the history of the human race a definite stage seems to have been reached about 5000 B.C., which step by step led on to those great ancient cultures (Egyptian, Aegean, Babylonian) which surrounded Palestine.

Through his sons he became the ancestor of the whole human race.

The theosophical conception of brotherhood is thus rather transcendental than materialistic, and is not therefore to be regarded as the exact equivalent of the socialistic doctrine of the solidarity of the human race.

Sometimes the serpent stands at the head of the human race as the mother of a11.2 This, following an old and still well supported interpretation of the name Eve (hawwah), was apparently also the belief of one branch of the Hebrews.3 There are many instances of tribes or clans named after the serpent.

The voyages of Columbus and Vespucci of to America, the rounding of the Cape by Diaz and the discovery of the sea road to India by Vasco da Gama, Cortes's conquest of Mexico and Pizarro's conquest of Peru, marked a new era for the human race and inaugurated the modern age more decisively than any other series of events has done.

The ideal of production of good to the human race through the discovery of truth, was combined in him with the practical desire to be of service to his country.

On the events through which the human race is to achieve its destiny Ballanche gives few intelligible hints.

If the human race constitutes a single species, then the mere fact that man now inhabits every region, and is in each case constitutionally adapted to the climate, proves that acclimatization has occurred.

They belong to the Finnish family, and consequently to the Ural-Altaic division of the human race.

Since no one could keep this law, the whole human race fell under the curse, temporal and eternal, of the Demiurge.

The saint does not love Christ as his Redeemer, but only as the Redeemer of the human race.

The older school had taught that Gotama, who had propounded the doctrine of Arahatship, was a Buddha, that only a Buddha is capable of discovering that doctrine, and that a Buddha is a man who by self-denying efforts, continued through many hundreds of different births, has acquired the so-called Ten Paramitas or cardinal virtues in such perfection that he is able, when sin and ignorance have gained the upper hand throughout the world, to save the human race from impending ruin.

This geological claim for a vast antiquity of the human race is supported by the similar claims of prehistoric archaeology and the science of culture, the evidence of all three departments of inquiry being intimately connected, and in perfect harmony.

A primary mental similarity of all branches of the human race is evidenced by their common faculty of speech, while at the same time secondary diversities of race-character and history are marked by difference of grammatical structure and of vocabularies.

He limits the possession of freedom to Adam, the first man, who, by abusing his prerogative, has corrupted the human race.

To him the human race is indebted, in large measure, for the maritime exploration, within one century (1420-1522), of more than half the globe, and especially of the great waterways from Europe to Asia both by east and by west.

From this state Adam fell, and in his fall involved the whole human race descended from him.

Since the oils and fats have always served the human race as one of the most important articles of food, the oil and fat industry may well be considered to be as old as the human race itself.

He defends them against Zeus, who, in accordance with a widely diffused mythical theory, desires to destroy the human race and supplant them by a new and better species, or who simply revenges a trick in which men get the better of him.

Genesis 3 will lay the blame for evil at the door of the human race.

In the last newsletter the Editor seemed rather dismissive of our claim to membership of the human race.

This idea has become extended by many into the belief that they will return to ' save ' the human race.

Many thanks for reviewing my booklet exposing the great religious hoax on the human race.

He blew the whistle on the great religious hoax on the human race.

Yet second-hand romance and second-hand emotion are surely better than the dull, soul-killing monotony which life brings to most of the human race.

The human race is so puny compared to the universe that being disabled is not of much cosmic significance.

Is there no end to these people that will cause the ruination of the human race given half a chance?

The older method was to attempt the comparison between the highest member of a lower group and the lowest member of a higher group - to suppose, for example, that the gorilla and the chimpanzee, the highest members of the apes, were the existing representatives of the ancestors of man and to compare these forms with the lowest members of the human race.

The trial was successful, and by doing so he earned the gratitude of the human race.

With the scholar's dislike of textbooks, he rapidly acquired a thorough knowledge of the ancient historians, quickly passed on to medieval times, and here it was that he formed as the ideal of his life the study of universal history, the works of God as displayed in the history of the human race.

The Oriental point of view for the 13th century appears in Jelaleddin's history of the Ayyubite sultans of Egypt, written towards the end of the 13th century; in Maqrizi's history of Egypt, written in the middle of the 15th century; and in the compendium of the history of the human race by Abulfeda (f1332); while the omniscient Abulfaragius (whom Rey calls the Eastern St Thomas) wrote, in the latter half of the 13th century, a chronicle of universal history in Syriac, which he also issued, in an Arabic recension, as a Compendious History of the Dynasties.

The human race is interested in these experiments, though a few old women who are incapacitated for them, or who own their thirds in mills, may be alarmed.

But the most luxuriously housed has little to boast of in this respect, nor need we trouble ourselves to speculate how the human race may be at last destroyed.

She had the air of one who has suddenly lost faith in the whole human race.

In Christ 's death and resurrection the stranglehold of sin and evil on the human race was broken.

Would you consider the present age the apogee of the human race?

The challenge is whether or not the human race can act quickly enough to make a positive impact in our lifetimes.

This is only a partial list of environmental challenges the human race faces.

Set in an alternate 1951, the last of the human race attempts to survive in the last remains of civilization.

Experience Neo's journey from a lost soul in the Matrix to become "The One" who will save Zion and the human race.

You get to experience the transformation of Neo from a lost soul in the Matrix, into becoming the "One" who will save Zion and the human race.

The basic plot of the Terminator movies is cyborgs, or terminators, are designed to take over the world from the human race.

John Connor starts a resistance movement against the terminators to save the human race and defeat the cyborgs.

Most of the human race has been destroyed, but Connor (played by Christian Bale) bands together with a group of survivors to stymie the machines.

Many people believe that when all of the virtuous and godly Knights Templars were murdered, a curse fell upon the human race for the rest of eternity.

The reality is that regardless of its cause, experiences of traveling outside of the physical body have been recorded by the human race throughout history.

Body scarification is nearly as old as the human race.

For many souls, butterflies represent deep emotion, personal change or visions of a more perfect human race.

The moon has long held a fascination for the human race.

A wide variety of alarm clocks were invented throughout the history of the human race.

Set in a near-future of environmental collapse, it chronicles the fate of the human race as the effects of pollution lead to massive infertility in humans and in some animal species.

First putting the human race on trial for its existence, Q ultimately becomes fascinated with humanity, and with Picard in particular, often interfering with the running of the starship for his own amusement.

The answer results in much debate because there are those who feel robots help us accomplish many things in the human race.

The villains gained faces and personalities beyond their 'toaster' images and a man named Baltar still became an accomplice, albeit unwittingly in the new series, to the destruction of the human race.

His role in the fall of the human race remains largely unknown for a time.

Earth's growing population problem and the loss of vital resources meant that space colonization was the next step to saving the human race.

The 1970's Battlestar Galactica focused on a core group of characters and left the Cylons as rather one-dimensional villains with indecipherable motives beyond the extermination of the human race.

The message of Star Trek has always been one of hope, freedom and unity for the human race.

The human race barely survived.

Did you really almost annihilate the human race?

We must learn to issue from ourselves, transport ourselves back to other times, and become children again in order to comprehend the infancy of the human race.

The Galapagos archipelago possesses a rare advantage from its isolated situation, and from the fact that its history has never been interfered with by any aborigines of the human race.

Australia and Polynesia By 87, 000,000 392,000,000 170,000,000 1 43, 000,000 7,000,000 influence of climate, and by the development of trade even to inhabit countries which cannot yield a food-supply, the mass of mankind is still completely under the control of those conditions which in the past determined the distribution and the mode of life of the whole human race.

The extension of modified forms of the Mongolian type over the whole American continent may be mentioned as a remarkable circumstance connected with this branch of the human race.

Pasteur had the good fortune, and just reward, of seeing the results of his work applied to the benefit both of the human race and of the animal world.

The Sidra Rabbet knows of three total destructions of the human race by fire and water, pestilence and sword, a single pair alone surviving in each case.

The souls of the whole human race pre-exist in the World of Emanations, and are all destined to inhabit human bodies.

In Hindu (the Puranas), Parsi and Arab tradition, Mer y is looked upon as the ancient Paradise, the cradle of the Aryan families of mankind, and so of the human race.

It is probably only sickly adults or young children of the human race who can be actually killed by a scorpion's sting.

The imperishable Record invests the human race like a protective atmosphere, a new and yet a natural dispensation, giving to man, as compared with his animal ancestry, a new heaven and a new earth !

These two oracles agree in the elaborateness of their description of the fearful fate of the enemies of Yahweh (Babylon and Edom are merely representatives of a class), and also in their view of the deliverance and restoration of Israel as an epoch for the whole human race.

These, salted and dried, are exported to all parts of the world, and form, when taken in connexion with the enormous quantity of fresh cod consumed, a valuable addition to the food resources of the human race.

It has even been asserted to attack the human race.

The elaboration of these ideas in relation to the history of the civilization of the most advanced portion of the human race occupies two of the volumes of the Positive Philosophy, and has been accepted by very different schools as a masterpiece of rich, luminous, and far-reaching suggestion.

At last the power and influence of the spirits of darkness, with whom man associates himself by his sin, became so great that the existence of the human race was threatened, and Jehovah was necessitated to descend into nature to restore the connexion between Himself and man.

In the last of these the conception of Christ's Headship of the human race assumed a specially inspiring form.

The idea of an Incarnation of God is absurd; why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker?

In one of the two passages which express it we are also told that each member of the human race is "the Adam of his own soul."

Dale's Atonement (1875), the special point of which is that the death of Christ is not required by the personal demand of God to be propitiated, but by the necessity of honouring an ideal law of righteousness; thus, " the death of Christ is the objective ground on which the sins of men are remitted, because it was an act of submission to the righteous authority of the law by which the human race was condemned.

In its structure and cranial capacity it is entitled to a higher place in the zoological scale than any anthropoid, for it almost certainly walked erect; and, on the other hand, in its intellectual powers it must have been much below the lowest of the human race at present known.

If we consider in conclusion that Manichaeism gave a simple, apparently profound, and yet convenient solution of the problem of good and evil, a problem that had become peculiarly oppressive to the human race in the and and 3rd centuries, we shall have named the most important factors which account for the rapid spread of the system.

Revelation, according to their view, is progressive, and no revelation is final, for, as the human race progresses, a fuller measure of truth, and ordinances more suitable to the age, are vouchsafed.

Further, he defended against the Stoics the Peripatetic doctrine of the eternity of the world and the indestructibility of the human race.

With all its deficiencies, the Christian church has gained the " nations of the future," and whereas in the 3rd century the proportion of Christians to the whole human race was only that of one in a hundred and fifty, this has now been exchanged for one in three, and it is indisputable that the progress of the human race at this moment is identified with the spread of the influence of the nations of Christendom.

This great increase in the per capita consumption of iron by the human race is of course but part of the general advance in wealth and civilization.

He published many scientific monographs, including a memoir on the formation of a deaf variety in the human race.

Will we become immortal or will the human race end with the end of the universe?

Rhyn was a mass murderer, a creature who had tried to wipe out the human race.