“The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic and wholly extra-terrestrial reasons, and thus clearly belonging to spheres of existence whereof we know nothing and wherein we have no part.” KnowsReasonExistenceMankindSourceTerribleExtrasBelongingSpheresPrimitiveCalamityForefathersOmnipotentBoonCryptic Book:The Classic Horror Stories Source: The Classic Horror Stories
“It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages.” KindMankindStageVariousCyclesDefinitePreciseBoon Author:Ellsworth Huntington
“Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.” SelfAliveMankindIndiaDenialRestraintSelf-denialPurificationBoonSelf Restraint Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.” ReligiousMankindTheoryPrisonDirtyPreacherAlliancesBoonGallows Book:Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation Source: Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation