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“Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.”

Art Two Natural Class Mankind Praise Divided Artificial Being Natural

Book:Mortals and Others, Volume I: American Essays 1931-1935

Source: Mortals and Others, Volume I: American Essays 1931-1935

“Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice and land areas of the Arctic archipelago. We do not doubt for a moment that the rest of the world would find us at fault, and hold us liable, should we fail to ensure adequate protection of that environment from pollution or artificial deterioration.”

“Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.”

Natural Views Mankind Judging Artificial Standpoint

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years before the First World War in and around Boston. He had noticed that people liked going into the dark to see the light... the appeal of the movies is beyond the sensible, rational or the hard-working. Going into the dark, afte centuries of progress in which mankind has staggered toward artificial light, smacks of delicious perversity.”

“Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an artificial invention to that purpose. The same may be said of allegiance, of the laws of nations, of modesty, and of good manners. All these are mere human contrivances for the interest of society.”

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature

“You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.”

Would Be Order Numbers Mankind Birth Tables Strive Favors Bread Guests Artificial Irrational Diminish Banquets

Book:Christian Values and Virtues

Source: Christian Values and Virtues

“Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are all the result of petty localities, and artificial situation. One physical want, one severe and abrupt lesson from the colorless and shriveled lip of necessity, is worth all the logic of the empty wretches who have presumed to prate it, from Zeno down to Burgersdicius. It silences in a second all the feeble sophistry of conventional life, and ascetical passion.”