Humanity
* All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers.
* Humanities consists of branches of learning concerned withsocial and moral thought
  - emphasizes particularity of experience
  - encompasses literature, history, culture, and communications
  - involve the individual in the varied experiences of life
  - involves the study of human culture, character, ideas, expressions and values
  - is about values, imagination, ideas, and debate
* Humanities is an integrated in-depth study of key periods of history
  - integration of language arts, social arts and science and the fine arts
* Humanities is the study of humans and their environments
  - the arts and ideas of various cultures
  - teach skills important to the world, as important as the languages of the sciences
  - vast discipline that covers art, music, philosophy, history, and literature
* also benefits from knowledge of the aesthetic values of biological diversity.
* can evolve healthily only at a given rate
  - often register what other members of humanity are sensing and feeling
* constitutes a subject of conscience, of moral order, of love for our fellow humans.
* currently utilizes over half the available surface freshwater of the planet
* desires lives.
* fixes more nitrogen from the air than is fixed by all natural processes combined.
* has a built-in sense of 'belonging'
  - collective mind
  - long history of trying to predict the future by various means, including divination
  - world view
  - an everlasting relationship with technology
* includes arms.
* includes body hair
  - substances
  - brains
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - ears
  - elbows
  - feet
  - fingers
  - hands
* includes human bodies
  - heads
  - legs
  - material bodies
  - necks
  - nuclei
  - palms
  - piluses
  - plasma membranes
  - rib cages
  - sections
  - skulls
  - soles
  - sterna
  - vacuoles
  - wrists
* is about the respect for one's fellow human being.
* is an inherent part of the universes systems and order
  - interlocking community with enormous potential for both good and evil
  - by definition in a flux, especially among developing nations
  - common to all
  - conceived of as benevolence and charity
  - conditioned by desire - good desire, selfish desire, wrong desire, and spiritual desire
* is connected by something greater than transient emotional states
  - time and space
  - filled with the potential for goodness, love, sharing and fairness
  - joined together under a single, popularly-elected world government
  - kindness, empathy, rationality, love peace and intelligence
  - linked to the solar system in countless ways
  - marked by sin
  - more than a complex form of existence
  - nature
* is one race
  - unit in the evolutionary process
* is part of a vast evolving universe
  - nature, a species that evolved among other species
  - quality
  - responsible for five or six billion tons a year
  - said to be essentially rational and an animal with certain physical attributes
  - subject and object of art
* is the kudzu of the animal kingdom
  - love that extends through the universe as manifested in man
  - most special creation because humans alone have the power to think and reason
  - only animal species that walks comfortably on two legs
  - perfection of material creation and at the lowest point of spiritual reality
  - virtue of a woman, generosity of a man
  - then part of the animal kingdom, and subsequently, all living things on Earth
  - vulnerable according to the level of food it stores
* meets the scientific criteria for a single species.
* mixed-blood species.
* multiplicity of ascending and descending life processes.
* often refers to destiny as inevitable.
* part of the human soul.
* piece of the living body.
* relatively new but dynamic component in earth ecosystems.
* relies on the environment.
* religious creation.
* subsists on food, and food product of rain.
* temporary stage along the evolutionary pathway.
* unified whole of persons, machines, and knowledge.
* virus infecting planet Earth.
* visionary species, that has produced greatness, and can achieve much more.
* weird group of people.