Hyperbole suits Love's voice: always declamatory, it hasn't gained delicacy with age, so he rarely calls upon her to do anything other than belt, and in state-of-humanity songs such as Jimmy Webb's Who Under Heaven and his own Among the Believers, she does so with the conviction of a Hollywood superhero battling apocalypse.
Pufendorf distinguishes two such states, natural and adventitious, the former referring to the natural state occupied by all humans as such (thus, the "state of humanity"), and the latter to the special conditions, institutions, or standing (e.g., commercial, marital, civil) that differentially accompany it, in being created by and imposed on particular sorts of persons.
The first of these designates the human condition as such, conceived negatively as a "state of humanity" in contrast to both the amoral state of beasts but also "toward [or against] God".
Have you read Julian Simon's "The State of Humanity"?
This is tragically mirrored in the current state of humanity.
The brutish state of humanity is a given, and kindness an aberration.
In terms of improving the state of humanity, I don't see the direct connection.
When you see the state of humanity today… I mean, come on, it's a mess".
According to Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi, the two discussed the state of humanity and its many problems, as well as the state of the environment.
You start out sorrowfully reflecting on the state of humanity, bolstered by the wisdom of age, but end up sidetracked by some niggling personal slight from 40 years ago.
