He saw humanity as the product of common descent.
But where some critics might see an unduly sympathetic portrait of people convicted of heinous crimes, David Huff, the executive director of the Arts Center in Corvallis, said he saw humanity with all its flaws and foibles.
Fans will remember that her first appearance, in the 50th, saw humanity left to broker a peace deal with the shapeshifting Zygons about how to co-habit the Earth.
The couple might come across as a little superior in their knowingness, but Jarmusch has said: "If you'd lived for a thousand years and saw humanity devolving, you might feel a little snobbish as well".
On Aug 29th 1997 my hair became self aware and saw humanity as a threat to its existence #DonaldTrumpsDiary.
Fry, however, saw humanity in the 6-year-olds who worked in London's streets gathering dung used in tanneries, in the mothers forced into prostitution as the only way to feed their children, and in the mentally ill who were carted away in chains to rot inside over-crowded prisons.
