One might, indeed, argue that the history of ideas, in so far as it includes the literatures, must center on characterizations of human nature and that the great periods of literary achievement may be distinguished from one another by reference to the images of human nature that they succeed in fashioning.

So far in history man has been too greatly over-occupied with projecting things into his environment rather than first creating the sort of person who can make the highest use of the things he has created.

One of our foremost jurists, David Dudley Field, has gone so far as to call this provision `` the greatest achievement ever made in the course of human history ''.

There is a history of political controversy within organized US Ásatrú, mostly surrounding the question of how to deal with such adherents as place themselves in a context of the far right and white supremacy, notably resulting in the fragmentation of the Asatru Free Assembly in 1986.

It dates back at least as far as recorded history.

The current southern border of British Columbia was established by the 1846 Oregon Treaty, although its history is tied with lands as far south as California.

For most of human history, pearls were the ultimate precious beads of natural origin because of their rarity, although the pearl-culturing process has now made them far more common.

And in the top of the fifth inning, second baseman Bill Wambsganss executed the first ( and only, so far ) unassisted triple play in World Series history, in fact the only Series triple play of any kind.

The UNESCO general history of Central Asia, written just before the collapse of the USSR, defines the region based on climate and uses far larger borders.

In contrast, just as postmodernism has so far failed to take root in ethnic Chinese circles as opposed to a general sense of Chinese nationalist moral certainty, much of ethnic Chinese scholarship of Chinese history remains largely modernist or even outright traditionalist in outlook.

A party history pamphlet went so far as to state that the party needed to eliminate " the incorrect, un-Marxist interpretation of the role of the individual in history, which is expressed in propaganda by the idealist theory of the cult of personality, which is alien to Marxism ".

The devil dances of Sri Lanka or " yakun natima " are a carefully crafted ritual with a history reaching far back into Sri Lanka's pre-Buddhist past.

However, most notable anarchists in history have been less radical, retaining altruism and a sense of the importance of the individual that is appreciable but does not go as far as egoism.

Due to population growth and the proliferation of compulsory education, UNESCO has calculated that in the next 30 years more people will receive formal education than in all of human history thus far.

Ecuador's military history dates far back to its first attempt to secure freedom from Spain in 1811.

The historic emphasis and poetic naturalist writings for protection was on wild places, from notable ecologists in the history of conservation biology, such as Aldo Leopold and Arthur Tansley, were far removed from urban centres where the concentration of pollution and environmental degradation is located.

In particular the flag has become a banner for pro-Europeanism outside the Union, for example in Georgia, where the flag is on most government buildings since the coming to power of Mikhail Saakashvili, who used it during his inauguration, stating: " European flag is Georgia ’ s flag as well, as far as it embodies our civilisation, our culture, the essence of our history and perspective, and our vision for the future of Georgia.

In addition to hiring Leyland as manager, the Marlins signed third baseman Bobby Bonilla, outfielder Moisés Alou, and pitcher Alex Fernandez to lucrative free-agent contracts, raising expectations to levels far beyond anything in franchise history.

Even if such civilizations are rare, the scale argument indicates they should exist somewhere at some point during the history of the universe, and since they could be detected from far away over a considerable period of time, many more potential sites for their origin are within range of our observation.

The history of Gibraltar portrays how The Rock gained an importance and a reputation far exceeding its size, influencing and shaping the people who came to reside here over the centuries.

The recorded history of Scotland begins with the arrival of the Roman Empire in the 1st century, the Roman province of Britannia reached as far north as the Antonine Wall, which once ran from the Clyde to the Forth.

Paris was by far the largest city with 220, 000 people in 1547 and a history of steady growth.

For most of the history of the harpsichord, however, the clavicytherium was far less common than the horizontal instrument, probably because of its greater complexity and lesser reliability.

This argument has a long history, and can be traced back at least as far as Cicero's De Natura Deorum ii. 34.

In striving to " be holy " as God is holy, a person attempts so far as possible to live in accordance with God's wishes for humanity, striving to more completely live with each of these with every moment of one's life.

Opium, the most pernicious drug known to humanity, is surrounded, in this country, with far fewer safeguards than any other nation in Europe fences it with.

The sprawling narrative deals with a far future where humanity struggles and wages war against past souls flooding back into the land of the living via possession ( Al Capone and Fletcher Christian are among the returnees ).

" Crane's main achievement, according to Barczewski, is the restoration of Scott's humanity, " far more effectively than either Fiennes's stridency or Solomon's scientific data.

In the far future, humanity has discovered interstellar travel and faster-than-light communication enabled by ansibles.

* Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer ; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

On the expulsion of Germans after World War II he said: " So far as the conscience of humanity should ever again become sensitive, will this expulsion be an undying disgrace for all those who remember it, who caused it or who put up with it.

" As such, apartheid was declared to be a crime against humanity, with a scope that went far beyond South Africa.

Thus Leto's Golden Path gave humanity both immunity to domination by prescient rulers via Siona's genetic trait, and immunity to domination by any single ruler or disaster by spreading them far and wide into unknown reaches of the universe.

Dealing perfectly with architecture, and perfectly, as far as ‘ concerned his peculiar purpose, with humanity in his art, Méryon was little called upon by the character of his subjects to deal with Nature.

When the UED becomes aware of the presence of aliens hostile to humanity in the far away Koprulu Sector, it sends a large expeditionary force to defeat the aliens, conquer the sector, and reintegrate the banished human colonists who reside there into its political fold.

Kane, who believes that the existence of a God is far more likely than humanity having emerged from " random chance ", tries to argue that deeds of pure self-sacrifice are proof of human goodness, which can only be explained by divine purpose.

The Race invaders are surprised to find that humanity has progressed far more rapidly any other species they had previously studied.

These represent the majority by far of " humanity " in the novel, followed in a distant second place by the gleisners.

This raises some concerns, dating back as far as Eugene Wigner's 1960 observations on the matter, that what we call foundations of mathematics and cosmology may be not observable or discoverable absolutes, but rather, aspects of humanity and its cognition.

Against this backdrop of renewal and conflict, humanity makes its first contact with another intelligent, spacefaring species: the " Moties ," who represent a far more grave threat than even the Sauron Supermen.

In fact, a fringe faction of the Kzinti known as the Kdaptists, frustrated with the reversals their race had suffered against humanity, went so far as to adopt the human concept that God had created humanity ( not Kzinti ) in His image, and that He favors and protects humans over other races.

The poets, beginning with Homer, far from improving and educating humanity, do not possess the knowledge of craftsmen and are mere imitators who copy again and again images of virtue and rhapsodise about them, but never reach the truth in the way the superior philosophers do.

In a 1902 article, " Pourquoi j ’ ai écrit Pelléas " ( Why I wrote Pelléas ), Debussy explained the appeal of the work: " The drama of Pelléas which, despite its dream-like atmosphere, contains far more humanity than those so-called ‘ real-life documents ’, seemed to suit my intentions admirably.

Even the cultural norms of her community deny her intellectual and spiritual growth, according to Elizabeth Ermarth, " They are norms according to which she is an inferior, dependent creature who will never go far in anything, and which consequently are a denial of her full humanity.

Later, in the early 20th century, Max Heindel, a Rosicrucian Initiate, emphasizes that the roots of the Brothers of the Rose Cross, immersed in the western mystery tradition, are almost impossible to be traced as " theirs is a work which aims to encourage the evolution of humanity, they have labored far back into antiquity -- under one guise or another ".

Crayak, while not responsible for the creation nor ( as far as is known ) the actions of the Yeerks, would rather that they absorbed humanity and be absorbed in turn by an even more aggressive species.

Long before humanity existed, in a far off time of myth, death was an unknown, equally distant concept, but when death first came to the world, the " Messenger from Afar " was born.

If they are sent to King's Island, they will be under restraint, but they will be free from committing or receiving violence and we are certainly bound by every principle of humanity to protect them as far as we can.