We may say that this, like several other long periods in the history of the human race, was destitute, or deprived of the moral qualities which are the root of literary excellence.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

At the same time, while observation becomes more difficult, it is more carelessly and badly done; this is another reason for the small success of our researches into the natural history of the human race.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[34] "The hopes of the Hindu rest on the Hindu; yet the Rana forsakes them.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

It belongs to us to vindicate the honor of the human race, and to teach that assuming brother, moderation.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The point of departure, like the point of arrival, for all his thoughts, was hatred of human law; that hatred which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential incident, becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation, and which manifests itself by a vague, incessant, and brutal desire to do harm to some living being, no matter whom.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

It was a pronouncedly warlike and gay show; the sabres clank'd, the men look'd young and healthy and strong; the electric tramping of so many horses on the hard road, and the gallant bearing, fine seat, and bright faced appearance of a thousand and more handsome young American men, were so good to see.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

I reflected that I had as yet done but little, very little indeed, to further the hapiness of the human race, or to advance the information of the succeeding generation.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

When Lydgate was taking part in the conversation, she never looked towards him any more than if she had been a sculptured Psyche modelled to look another way: and when, after being called out for an hour or two, he re-entered the room, she seemed unconscious of the fact, which eighteen months before would have had the effect of a numeral before ciphers.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Finally, it was thought that if even my behavior had been such as to authorize him to break with me, friendship, although extinguished, had rights which he ought to have respected.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When we consider the positive evil caused to the disqualified half of the human race by their disqualification—first in the loss of the most inspiriting and elevating kind of personal enjoyment, and next in the weariness, disappointment, and profound dissatisfaction with life, which are so often the substitute for it; one feels that among all the lessons which men require for carrying on the struggle against the inevitable imperfections of their lot on earth, there is no lesson which they more need, than not to add to the evils which nature inflicts, by their jealous
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

Polly removed her hat and coat leisurely, sat down on a hassock on the hearth rug, and ruffled her hair with the old familiar gesture, almost forgotten these latter days.
— from Polly Oliver's Problem by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

As civil history may be divided into biography, which is the history of individuals, and universal history, which is the history of the human race, so evolution falls naturally into two categories--the evolution of the individual, and the evolution of the sum of living beings.
— from Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 by Thomas Henry Huxley

[Pg 124] ville thought it highly improbable that the Irish Ambassadors, as they were called, would venture to present the Address in the improved state of the King's health, or that His Royal Highness would be advised to accept it.
— from Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of

New York Methodist .—“The Gipsies present one of the most remarkable anomalies in the history of the human race.
— from Was John Bunyan a Gipsy? by James Simson

THE PRESIDENT: I don’t think you can have heard that the United States Member of the Tribunal has just made this very point, which you are now making to Counsel for the United States, and has pointed out to him that he ought to have read there, or drawn attention at any rate, to the other paragraphs in this document which showed that Rosenberg was objecting to the methods used.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 5 by Various

After voicing polite thanks, Claire, in her own thought, had rebelled against the situation vehemently.
— from Claire: The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, by a Blind Author by Leslie Burton Blades

Accordingly a perfect earth-history would be written as a continuous narrative, just as would a complete history of the human race.
— from The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology by J. E. (John Edward) Marr

The battle of Culloden was to seal the doom of the clan system, and to prepare the way for the history of the Highland Regiments.
— from The Story of the Highland Regiments by Frederick Watson

Just then, his own thoughts having run their unhappy course, took courage again, and, as he looked at his father's knitted brows, he thought: "None but God can separate us in the end."
— from Ovind: A Story of Country Life in Norway by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson