It puts our human place in the cosmos in clearer perspective, reminding us that we are part of a much larger world that is not
dependent upon our human activity.
This four session course contains useful information about our current state of affairs
based upon human - caused climate change, how we got here and what we can do to change course.
This, then, is our background context, and we'd best remember it when calling
upon human rights to argue against fracking.
This ability to adapt to shifting temperatures is particularly pertinent, with climate change currently threatening to impact
upon human life once more.
These photographs highlight how television has become an integral part of modern life and the reality of its
impact upon the human condition.
These consequences are the more serious if we remember that our very humanity, as individuals,
relies upon human society and what we receive from it.
The artists believe that political systems are essentially
built upon human actions and predictions, and for that matter, create an archive of incidental value judgments.
As machines have lifted more and more of the burden of labor from men's backs and hands, demands
upon the human body have greatly declined.
Or «important» books that are supposed to make me reflect
upon the human condition by portraying lives of people that I wouldn't like if I knew them in real life.
Theology should be no more and no less than constant reflection
upon the human experience within the community of faith — without fantasies.
Unlike many kinds of music, classical songs have a calming effect
upon the human mind and body.
Every race of mankind has its own mental outlook
upon human existence; therefore must the religion of the mind ever run true to these various racial viewpoints.
Am I too cynical when I suspect that it will be the naked self - interest of those who have convinced themselves that culture makes no real claim of truth
upon the human soul?
But even in an environmental - impact statement, it is the effect of the proposed activity
only upon human welfare which has legal standing.
Neither shall I here attempt to examine the economic and political problems created by the intrusion of nuclear energy
upon human affairs.
There is no theological excuse for the pain
inflicted upon human and other creatures by human beings.
A wide variety of local norms and beliefs should be permitted, within limits that would exclude egregious
limits upon human liberty.
In this way, we can fix our
gaze upon the human being, and have that gaze clarified, expanded and enriched.
Worst of all, your body may stop producing human growth hormone of its own and you may become permanently dependent
upon human growth hormone supplements.
They
come upon a human baby, and decide that the right thing to do is return him to his tribe.
The primary objection to this, of course, is that it seems to make eternal life at least somewhat
dependent upon humans.
In the nineteenth century the extension of Christianity both geographically and into various phases of culture in conjunction with the expansion of the Occident, private enterprise, laissez faire, political democracy, and Anglo - Saxon Protestantism, made for unparalleled growth and heretofore unequaled influence
upon the human race.
What I am trying to get across is that there is a great deal of
dependence upon human capacity to manage the world.
Such a conception, of course, is not meant to depreciate in any way the high value which is to be
placed upon human life.
In the present perspective, the range of freedom enjoyed depends
upon the human community that one inherits, so that a more important public world not only waits upon but is a condition for greater self - conscious freedom.
Though science has reached phenomenal heights in our time, it has at no point invalidated anything basic to Christian faith, and at no time in human history has the revelation of God in Christ shone
upon the human scene with greater clarity and power.
One frontier farmer of the 1780's expressed the constant fear and the effect
upon the human spirit in the following way: «We never sit down either to dinner or supper, but the least noise immediately spreads a general alarm and prevents us from enjoying the comfort of our meals.
When the light of the incarnate Word
shines upon the human mind, the native capacity for thinking metaphysically is revived and drawn into fruitful relation to the revealed truth of Christ.