Mankind
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men · mankind · all mankind · human beings · mankind universally · the biped herd · the human race
in the texts
The Law of Intellectual Property
The human race collectively, whose universal practices are cited as evidence for the principles argued in the passage.
Mankind universally act upon this principle.
Men earn their livings, and support their families, by producing and selling ideas.
Mankind, in their dealings with each other, in their purchases, and in their sales, both tacitly and expressly acknowledge and act upon the principle, that a thought is wealth;
Statesman
The human race, treated in the myth as left without divine tending and forced to develop arts and self-government, and later as the object of the statesman's care.
No matter how strong our belief that there was an art of feeding the biped herd, we ought not to have called it kingship and statecraft on the spot, as if it were all quite settled.
and that is the reason why the gifts of the gods that are told of in the old traditions were given us with the needful information and instruction,—fire by Prometheus, the arts by Hephaestus and the goddess who is his fellow-artisan, seeds and plants by other deities.