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Humanity!

I looked up in the dictionary for the meaning of the word "Humanity". One of the definitions is "Quality of being human". Another definition said "Benevolence".

My thought jumped to Humanities in Education field. We have department of "Humanities" in colleges and universities. And interestingly, artistic studies are grouped under this topic and this department is the one that is poorly funded.

Come to think of it, Engineering, Medicine also are an art in their own respect. But the reason for the rich funding of those departments is that ultimately these studies promote consumption and generate money. While Humanities is ignored as a branch of study fit for people who want to teach!

This may not be the case in many countries  - but it is so in the countries I visited.

Anyway back to the word - Humanity!

I think "Humanity" -  the word came to existence because of people who lived the live purposefully and demonstrated the value of life by adhering to the values they practiced till the end of their lives and therefore defined the best qualities of human race. It may be that the collective term of these best qualities is what is humanity. 

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