Not so with Belloc, who was far from alone among historians of his generation who understood the significance of race and blood in the episodes of
the human past and how important these factors were in the creation of societies and civilizations.
Or does this only apply to
humans the past 2013 years and not the 200,000 years prior?
The higher possibilities of human achievement are a gift from past human achievements, favorably ordered, where
the human past includes both the previous activities of the individual in question and the communities of individuals to whom she or he relates.
Hawthorne was obsessed with
the human past, collective and familial, haunted by its virtues and its vices, its glories and degradations.
Its suffering at the hands of the all - too -
human past and present will eternally recur.
Here is a case, we are told «in which God does aim to be the main content of that which is re-enacted or incarnated from the past, so that an occasion of human experience would not so much re-enact its own
human past as some important aspect of the divine actuality» (1:146).
In all these ways it expressed a modern liberal ideal that contrasted with the hierarchical domination and exclusiveness of most of
the human past.
Accordingly, Sawicki argues, «It would be a misconception to regard the gospel words as referring, after the fact, to some event separate and self - contained that happened independently of those words and that subsists apart from them somewhere in
the human past.,,, [14] And «those who want to see the Lord must devote themselves to liturgy and the poor (better yet, the liturgy with the poor) as well as to printed texts.»
History deals with empirical facts of
the human past that are accessible to any rational person who uses historical method.
In the broadest sense it includes everything we know, or think we know, about
the human past, whether based on faith, on vague general impressions, or on methodical investigation.
He meant to say that we require a larger reading of
the human past, of our relations with each other and the universe and God, a retelling of our older tales to encompass many truths and to let us grow and change.
The great revolutions and revelations of
the human past, and I include the Christian revelation, have all been great retellings, new ways of narrating ancient truths to encompass a larger world.
And many endearing figures in
our human past and present have been able to «adjust» to the world by «giving up» or «working through» their childhood longing for significance in the eyes of another.
And this past is a highly selected segment of the total
human past, a different segment for different peoples.
As he writes in an excerpt from a memoir recently published in The New Yorker, he began to be haunted by the thought of «the ancientness of the Mass — that it and its antecedents very likely go farther back into
the human past than any other existing ceremony....
So understanding how they and their extinct relatives diversified could open a window on how language itself emerged among small social groups in the distant
human past.
«Along with archaeology and nomadic forager research, this [study] shoots holes in the view that
the human past and human nature are shockingly violent,» Fry says.
As a discipline, Anthropology attempts to understand
the human past, present, and future using tools and techniques from the sub-fields of sociocultural anthropology, biological anthropology, and archaeology.
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past Penguin Random House
David Reich, HMS professor of genetics, tells...
This involves discoveries about
the human past and the origins of homo sapiens.
«It seems to be a race among major teams looking for a better picture, a clearer snapshot of
our human past in history and prehistory,» she said.
Programmed to be the ultimate law enforcer, RoboCop's not supposed to remember
his human past - but memories of life, love and family are flooding in, blurring the line between man and machine, even as RoboCop sweeps the streets of «scum.»
Old smuggler's beaches make good kayak landings and the fascinating
human past is revealed by Native American pictographs and historical mining operations.
At the end of Planet of the Apes (1960s version), when Charlton Heston in the year 3978 was about to discover the humanity had destroyed itself in nuclear war, all the palaeo - evidence pertaining to
the human past was ordered to be destroyed by the bigwig academics of the day.
History Teachers have a major part in introducing the subject of
the human past to pupils.
Andrew is interested in combining archaeological methods and theory with ethnographic data and computational modeling to develop new ways to push the boundaries of our understanding of the social, cultural, and evolutionary aspects of
the human past.
He developed a distinctive pragmatic philosophy that carries with it an individualist understanding of
the human past and a hopeful glance at the human future.
Not exact matches
If you count early cave paintings as infographics, then
humans have been making and consuming this type of content for the
past 32,000 years.
«The need for
human bodies is absolutely vital,» said Chicago doctor Armand Krikorian,
past president of the American Federation for Medical Research.
Numerous studies over the
past decade have revealed the devastating long - term impact that football can have on the
human brain.
In the
past,
human resource managers were cast in a support role in which their thoughts on cost / benefit justifications and other operational aspects of the business were rarely solicited.
Over the
past 20 years there has been a significant amount of data showing that investment in the
human element in business is a profit - making proposition.
The declaration signed at the historic summit between the leaders of the two Koreas also did not mention several issues that have been prominent in the
past, including
human rights in North Korea and joint economic projects.
Musk has said in the
past that AI could be potentially very damaging to
humans, and Zuckerberg recently called such doomsday predictions «irresponsible.»
Yet, just months ago, a Jokowi victory appeared almost a sure thing — holding an almost 40 % lead over Prabowo, a candidate not allowed in the U.S. for
past human rights violations and who, as the former son - in - law of Suharto, the Indonesian dictator overthrown 16 years ago, is certainly among the nation's entrenched powers.
The publishing zeitgeist over the
past decade has favoured any treatise purporting to unravel the mysteries of
human behaviour.
Chatbots have risen in popularity in finance and other industries over the
past few months because recent improvements in artificial intelligence have made them better at interacting and interpreting
human language.
Consultant Gerlinde Herrmann, a
past president of the
Human Resources Professionals Association of Ontario, recalls taking her BlackBerry on an African safari, «which was stupid.»
Bezos accepted an Equality Award from the
Human Rights Campaign this
past November, and the company scored perfect on the HRC's corporate equality index.
While India has benefited from impressive GDP growth and watched its IT sector blossom into a $ 100 billion industry in the
past two decades, its focus on developing engineering talent has left the country dry of Indians with leadership and management skills, says Srini Kandula, vice president of
human resources for iGATE, a Freemont, Calif. - based outsourced software developer with 28,000 employees and operations in Bangalore.
Unlike
humans, who are more likely to die in the following year as they age, businesses that survive
past the first two years are less likely to die in each subsequent year.
Among Musk's concerns regarding AI are the idea that artificial intelligence could become dangerous if it evolves
past the point of
human intelligence, and that unregulated AI could potentially be used to start global conflicts by «manipulating information.»
Some argue that even the most advanced
human concepts are built up from basic building blocks that are shared across species, such as notions of
past and future; similarity and difference; and agent and object.
«Everyone looks at the
past and recognizes flawed
human beliefs and behaviors, but no one realizes future generations will do the same with us,» investor Chuck Gafvert points out.
«We are totally committed to healing wounds of the
past and building a better workplace culture for everyone,» said Uber's Chief
Human Resources Officer Liane Hornsey in a statement to Business Insider.
According to a Gallup poll, 74 % of employees feel that they are missing out on company news and information, which is shocking considering how hard
human resource teams have worked to increase employee engagement over the
past several decades.
So if you don't think we're
past the great filter, and you don't think we're the first life forms with a shot at making it
past the great filter, there's only one remaining conclusion:
Humans are toast.
«There's a big drive for holistic and natural remedies that follows the
human purchase trends within the
past six months,» said Santarsiero.
«Implementing these recommendations will improve our culture, promote fairness and accountability, and establish processes and systems to ensure the mistakes of the
past will not be repeated,» Liane Hornsey, Uber's chief of
human resources, said in a statement on Tuesday.
«Over the
past 11 years, SBP has seen the
human toll of delayed and unpredictable recoveries across the country.