We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Son of God became man so that we might become God.
A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune cannot take away. That for which he is indebted to circumstances is mere trapping and tinsel.
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
What is it worth to possess the riches of the world, when a man comes to face Eternity?
The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.