They are said by some to reflect how the unified consciousness of humanity ( the immortal human being or the soul ), is divided to manage different aspects of earthly life ( body / instinct / vital energy / deeper emotions / communication / having an overview of life / contact to God ).

In Spain in 1542 Bartolomé de Las Casas argued against Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda in the famous Valladolid debate, Sepúlveda mainted an Aristotelian view of humanity as divided into classes of different worth, while Las Casas argued in favor of equal rights to freedom of slavery for all humans regardless of race or religion.

For them, the idea of ethnicity is closely linked to the idea of nations and is rooted in the pre-Weber understanding of humanity as being divided into primordially existing groups rooted by kinship and biological heritage.

He divided humanity into three races, white, yellow and black all which receive marks for their beauty or ugliness of their skull and quality of their civilizations.

In the late nineteenth century, anthropometric studies led to a proposition of racial groups, one of which was termed " Australioid " by Thomas Huxley in an essay ' On the Geographical Distribution of the Chief Modifications of Mankind ' ( 1870 ), in which he divided humanity into four principal groups ( Xanthochroic, Mongoloid, Negroid, and Australioid ).

He explains that humanity can be divided up in general categories ; The 5 % who know and teach the truth, the 85 % or the majority of humanity that is " blind, deaf and dumb ", who do not know the truth and are mislead and exploited by the ruling 10 %.

The first appearance of the invisible hand in Smith occurs in The Theory of Moral Sentiments ( 1759 ) in Part IV, Chapter 1, where he describes a selfish landlord as being led by an invisible hand to distribute his harvest to those who work for him: " The proud and unfeeling landlord views his extensive fields, and without a thought for the wants of his brethren, in imagination consumes himself the whole harvest ... the capacity of his stomach bears no proportion to the immensity of his desires ... the rest he will be obliged to distribute among those, who prepare, in the nicest manner, that little which he himself makes use of, among those who fit up the palace in which this little is to be consumed, among those who provide and keep in order all the different baubles and trinkets which are employed in the economy of greatness ; all of whom thus derive from his luxury and caprice, that share of the necessaries of life, which they would in vain have expected from his humanity or his justice ... The rich ... are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society ..."

Theories of scientific racism became popular, one prominent figure being Georges Vacher de Lapouge ( 1854 – 1936 ), who in L ' Aryen et son rôle social ( 1899-" The Aryan and his social role ") divided humanity into various, hierarchized, different " races ", spanning from the " Aryan white race, dolichocephalic " to the " brachycephalic " ( short and broad-headed ) race.

This work likely dates to the early 2nd century and shows a schematization of the divine history divided into ten ambiguous periods of time called “ weeks .” In the apocalypse, weeks 1-7 ( 93: 1-10 ) retell the biblical history from the creation of humanity to the author ’ s time of writing ( possibly during the Maccabean crisis ).

He divided humanity into three races: white, yellow and black, and rated each for the beauty or ugliness of the skull and quality of their civilizations.

The Robotech Wars span more than three decades, divided into periods of anticipation, confrontation, and reconstruction, and each war pits humanity against a different alien opponent race with its own motivations, behaviors, and tactics.

They are divided into separate pantheons and are or were worshipped on Earth for thousands of years, though the cosmic entities called The Celestials forced them to limit their contact with humanity 1000 years ago.

However, as the creator's soul is divided into progressively smaller portions, he or she loses more of her or his natural humanity and the soul becomes increasingly unstable.

The Theme Space under the space frame was divided into three levels, each designed by the artist Tarō Okamoto, The underground level represented the past and was a symbol of the source of humanity.

Its poetry, divided into cantos ( as Dante's Divine Comedy ), narrates the story of the corsair Conrad, how he was in his youth rejected by society because of his actions and his later fight against humanity ( excepting women ).

He divided the history of humanity into three eras: pre-industrial, industrial and postindustrial.

The Sime ~ Gen Universe, created by Jacqueline Lichtenberg, involves a future where humanity is divided into two subspecies or " larities ".

Referring to the doctrines of Calvinism, Blake asserts that humanity is divided into the " Elect ", the " Reprobate " and the " Redeemed ".

One of the earlier uses of the concept of “ black ” as a metaphor for race was first used at the end of the 17th century when a French doctor named François Bernier ( 1625 – 1688 ), an early proponent of scientific racism, divided up humanity based on facial appearance and body type.

He divided humanity into three races, white, yellow and black all which receive marks for their beauty or ugliness of their skull and quality of their civilizations.

In addition, Christians understood humanity to be divided into three distinct races ( Europeans, Asians, and Africans ), one for each of the sons of Noah.

Here in these little rooms -- or stages arched open to the sky and river -- they choose a few lines out of the hundreds they may know and sing them according to one of the modes into which Persian music is divided.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

A few weeks later the maps were being divided into squares and a position was described as being `` about lots 239, 247 and 272 with pickets forward as far as 196 ''.

The long-range aspects of this program are divided into four distinct phases: basic mapping, inventory, analysis and plan and policy formation.

This system is divided into a forest highway system, administered by the Secretary of Commerce, and a forest development road and trail system, administered by the Secretary of Agriculture.

The lower number is always divided into the upper number: Af

We divided the country into five regions plus Hawaii and Alaska and in each is included a general description of the area plus specific recommendations of places and events to cover.

`` We, the Subscribers, do agree, that as soon as a convenient Number of Persons have subscribed to this, or a similar Writing, We will present a petition to the Hon'ble General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, praying for an Act incorporating into a Body politic the subscribers to such Writing with Liberty to build such a Bridge, and a Right to demand a Toll equal to that received at Malden Bridge, and on like Terms, and if such an Act shall be obtained, then we severally agree each with the others, that we will hold in the said Bridge the several shares set against our respective Names, the whole into two hundred shares being divided, and that we will pay such sums of Money at such Times and in such Manners, as by the said proposed Corporation, shall be directed and required ''.

A plug and a tube with holes in its cylindrical walls divided the chamber above the porous plug into two parts.

Also, the dictionary is divided into at least two parts: the list of dictionary forms and the file of information that pertains to these forms.

Instead, all of the total costs are treated as variable costs, although these costs are divided into costs that are deemed to be functions of different variables.

instead they divided the surface into many bands or covered it by all-over patterns into which freehand drawing began to creep.

The open ceiling, with allegorical and classical figures thrown in masses against the sky: the closed frieze, formally divided into historical scenes and tightly tied to the stone walls, belong in their large ordering to the line of Correggio and his Baroque followers.

The compounds are divided according to composition into seven categories.

The book is divided into chapters and in each chapter the material is grouped into Text, Tables, Illustrations, and Bibliography.

But inevitably the border which has divided the ghetto from the rest of the world falls into the hands of the ghetto.

They adopted a program by which Louisiana was divided into five districts.

The savages divided into two factions ; ;

He had assumed that all these buildings had been divided into apartments, but this one, from a glance at the hall furnishings, was obviously still a functioning town house, and its owners were in residence ; ;

Split badly during the recent presidential election into almost equally divided camps of party loyalists and independents, the Democratic party in Mississippi is currently a wreck.

The population of the Congo is 13.5 million, divided into at least seven major `` culture clusters '' and innumerable tribes speaking 400 separate dialects.