Sentence examples for action of humanity from inspiring English sources

Only death prevented him from writing the System of Positive Industry, or Treatise on the Total Action of Humanity on the Planet, announced as early as 1822.

Comte died on September 5, 1857, without having had time to draft the texts announced up to 35 years before: a Treatise of Universal Education, which he thought he could publish in 1858, a System of Positive Industry, or Treatise on the Total Action of Humanity on the Planet, planned for 1861, and, finally, for 1867, a Treatise of First Philosophy.

The alien setting of The Book of Strange New Things, which is about a missionary who sets out for a planet in a neighbouring galaxy, and which Faber has said will be his last novel, stemmed from his initial plan to write a novel with no humans in it at all, because he was so disgusted by the actions of humanity.

Put otherwise, the collective actions of humanity (e.g., emissions of so-called greenhouse gases) have afterlives among which are rising sea levels and planetary temperatures and consequent meteorological instability.

The O.E.D. dates it to the 14th century, as "the action of restoring humanity to God's favor".

It is a reminder that forgiveness and purity outlast the most unspeakable actions of fallen humanity.

It seems to me that a realistic acceptance of its catastrophic effects is the only sane course of action for the future of humanity.

This course examines the history of humanitarian sensibilities and the emergence of organized action in the cause of humanity.

Under the Bush administration, both the Pentagon and the State Department were intensely wary of signing up to anything that might bind them to take draconian action in the name of humanity.Indeed, R2P was a part of a much broader 2005 reform of the United Nations that George Bush first sought to weaken, then only reluctantly accepted.

"It was one of the most brutal actions in the history of humanity... and at the same time it was very close to the palace, it was very close to the police officers but unfortunately there were hundreds of people watching her being killed and taking her movie but nobody reacted to that," said Najla Habibyaar, one of the protesters.

Among other efforts, for thirty years she supported the New York Philharmonic, serving on its Board of Directors; she was on the Board of Directors of Humanity in Action International, and of Young Audiences; and she was a Trustee Emeritus of Connecticut College.