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Humanity! What is humanity? Definition 2. Mankind collectively; the human race. But hearing oftentimes The still, and music humanity. --Wordsworth. It is a debt we owe to humanity. --S. S. Smith. 3. The quality of being humane; the kind feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness. "The common offices of humanity and friendship." --Locke. 4. Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature. Polished with humanity and the study of witty science. --Holland. 5. pl. (With definite article) The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters. Note: The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and arch[ae]ology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called liter[ae] humaniores, or, in English, the humanities, . . . by way of opposition to the liter[ae] divin[ae], or divinity. --G. P. Marsh. Can't everyone be better? Why nowadays humans are inhumanity! Unkindness! Those inhumanity person please just get lost from my world! P/s : Dear puppies, do RIP ><!! Quotes to share : Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.
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