George Edward Woodberry Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine triumph of the sacrificial idea in history; for it would mean the humanization of mankind.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Mean, Race, Ideas

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

• To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Beautiful, Art, Civilization

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses”

• Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Beautiful, Artist, Soul

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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