‘The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered in future centuries not as an age of political conflict or technical inventions,
but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective.’

Arnold Toynbee

‘It may well be that to be truly human has to mean being a participant in the emergence of Humanity.’ ‘To take Humanity as a question has only appeared in recent times. In times past, every people had their own story—of creation, of origins and of destiny—but none had a story encompassing all the humans of the earth.’

From the conference brochure for ‘Humanity, a seminar-dialogue in the year 2000’
sponsored by DuVersity and the Baltimore Holistic Health Center

‘When historians look back on our century, they may remember it most, not for space travel or the release of nuclear energy,
but as the time when the peoples of the world first came to take one another seriously.’

Huston Smith, The World’s Religions