Human race

Menschheit, /. mankind, human race, menschlich, a. human humane. 

There is no other vitamin which exemplifies the interdependence between the human race and microorganisms better than Vitamin B12. Mankind still relies for its very existence upon the capability of a few species of bacteria to synthesize this fascinating coordination complex. A concerted effort is being made in a number of laboratories to determine procedures for the chemical synthesis of this vitamin. However, even the most talented synthetic chemists would have to admit that the organic chemist s lament is applicable to Vitamin B12 ... 

Figure 2.5 Leeuwenhoek s drawings of bacteria. Here may be seen cocci, bacilli and (probably) a spirochete. The motion of one of the bacali is clearly indicated. Today such observations are commonplace. But Leeuwenhoek w as seeing them for the first time in the history of the human race it was as momentous a discovery as that of Columbus -a new world ...

Coleridge did his best while under opium, and we owe the loss of the end of "Kubla Khan" to the interruption of an importunate "man from Porlock, ever accursed in the history of the human race ... 

It was clear to me that after the cold war era, the focus of sociopolitical conflict had begun to shift towards existential issues of the survival of the human race, in view of the increasing destruction of the environment. But my ideas were obviously premature, and my project n/as only awarded 2nd place. At the time, the concept seemed too daring. 

In terms of time, for high temperature steels it is conventional to restrict extrapolation to a time factor of 3, although years of practical experience are allowing this to be extended as far as 10. ISO 2578 [4] recommends no more than a factor of 4, from 5,000 to 20,000 h. A maximum value of 100 (two orders of magnitude) is permitted for pipes with the restriction that the temperature difference is limited to 60 °C for polyolefins and to 25 °C for PVC. General advice is no more than a factor of 10. Figures 9.1 and 9.2 show instances of somewhat extreme prediction far into the future of the human race. 

Thermodynamically, since the free-energy change has a positive value it can only proceed when energy is supplied from the sun. The photosynthetic process occurs on a vast scale, fixing 2 x 1011 tonnes per annum of carbon as carbohydrate, representing 10 times the energy consumption of the entire human race. 

The presumed immutability of the Jews became a staple of American science by mid-century as well, even though slavery and the question of Negro citizenship still dominated racial discussion. In Types of Mankind (1855) Josiah Nott remarked that the well-marked Israelitish features are never beheld out of that race The complexion may be bleached or tanned. . . but the Jewish features stand unalterably through all climates. In Natural History of the Human Races (1869) John Jeffries, too, argued that the Jews have preserved their family type unimpaired and though they number over five million souls, each individual retains the full impress of his primitive typical ancestors. 23 And of course we have already seen where these observations on Jewish racial integrity tended in the age of eugenics. 

Samuel Morton, Crania Americana A Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Natives of North and South America, to which Is Prefixed an Essay on the Variety of Human Species (Philadelphia J. Dobson, 1839), p. 5 Arthur Comte de Gobineau, The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races with Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence on the Civil and Political History of Mankind (Philadelphia Lippincott, 1856), p. 439 Arthur Comte de Gobineau, Essay on the Inequality of Human Races, in Michael Bediss, ed., Selected Political Writings (New York Harper and Row, 1970), p. 136. 

Ruth Benedict, Race Science and Politics [1940] (Westport Greenwood, 1982), p. 126 Samuel Morton, Crania Americana (Philadelphia J. Dobson, 1839), p. 16 Gobineau, Inequality of the Human Races, p. 73, emphasis added Theodore Parker, The Aspect of Slavery in America [1858], Saint Bernard and Other Papers (Boston American Unitarian Association, 1911), pp. 271, 280, 276-277. 

Josiah Nott, Types of Mankind (Philadelphia Lippincott, 1855), pp. 117, 118 John P. Jeffries, Natural History of the Human Races (New York Edward O. Jenkins, 1869), p. 123. 

Who could have imagined that a man of his description should have been received with respect in some of the most enlightened cities of Europe That he should have been regarded as a star propitious in the human race, as a new prophet, and as a type and representation of the Divinity That he should have approached thrones That haughty grandees should have become his humble suitors, and nobles paid him the most profound veneration ... 

Dennis was oddly preoccupied, yet he assured me that his effort had succeeded and that all over the world the wave of hyper-carbolation was sweeping through the human race, eliminating the distinction between the individual and the community as everyone discovered themselves spontaneously pushing off into a telepathic ocean whose name was that of its discoverer Dennis McKenna. 

Anthropological evidence suggests that prehistoric shamans practiced magic in the caves of southwestern Europe 40,000 years ago, and it is likely that the practice is older than that. Magic, therefore, is likely to be as old as the human race. 

Art, the expression of society, manifests, in its highest soaring, the most advanced social tendencies it is the forerunner and the revealer. Therefore, to know whether art worthily fulfills its proper mission as initiator, where the artist becomes truly of the avant-garde, one must know where Humanity is itself going, know what the destiny of the human race actually is.. .. Along with the hymn to happiness [the advanced artist pictures] the dolorous and despairing ode. To lay bare with a brutal brush all the brutalities, all the filth, which are the base of our society, this is the mission of the avant-garde artist. ... 

I ve been interviewed countless times, but my favorite interviewer is David Jay Brown, who asked me questions for his book Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse The book includes some of the coolest thinkers of our time as they consider the future of the human race and the mystery of consciousness. David s interviewees included such luminaries as Noam Chomsky, Kary Mullis, Candace Pert, Robert Anton Wilson, Douglas Rushkofif, Paul Krassner, Bruce Sterling, Ray Kurzweil, Hans Moravec, John Mack, and Alex Grey. 

When David asked me where I thought the human race should be focusing its scientific efforts, my first inclination for scientific investment was to consider all the standard or obvious areas of basic research aimed at alleviating or understanding disease, world hunger, and environmental problems—and research in synthetic fuels and agriculture. However, because we are already directing money toward most of... 

Sometimes I wonder if the human species will survive the next hundred years. Could the human race destroy itself even if it wanted to What about Doomsday Machines ... 

The lack of pure water for drinking purposes and the lack of water sufficiently pure for irrigating the land are major challenges for the human race. 

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