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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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HUMAN'ITY, n. [L. humanitas.]
with humanity.
Humanities, in the plural, signifies grammar, rhetoric and poetry; for teaching which there are professors in the universities of Scotland.
The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which
he is distinguished from other beings.
Mankind collectively; the human
race.
But hearing oftentimes It is a debt we owe to humanity. S. S. Smith. The quality of being humane; the kind
feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a
disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and to treat
all creatures with kindness and tenderness.
"The common offices
of humanity and friendship." Locke. Mental cultivation; liberal education;
instruction in classical and polite literature.
Polished with humanity and the study of witty science. Holland. The
branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric,
poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters.
* The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and archæology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called literæ humaniores, or, in English, the humanities, . . . by way of opposition to the literæ divinæ, or divinity. G. P. Marsh. | ||||||||