The Evolving Story of Humiliation versus Humility
Dear HumanDHS Friends!
COMMENT by Brian Lynch: In light of our view, as Lindner has documented so well, that the terms humiliation and humility have only recently come to have separate meanings. I found it fascinating to discover that there was, a hundred years after that separation in the 1750’s a call for a national day of “humiliation” and not a national day of “humility”. Seems to me good evidence of an evolution of the use of the words going on.
ARTICLE:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Congress-and-the-Founding-Fathers-Pray&id=340141″
The founding fathers of the United States of America, the pilgrims, attributed their success to God through fasting and prayer. Setting aside special days of fasting and prayer was an accepted part of life in the Plymouth Colony. A law was passed on November 15, 1636, allowing the Governor and his assistants “to command solemn days of humiliation by fasting, etc. And, also, for thanksgiving as occasion shall be offered.”
COMMENT: And here we see Lincoln persisting in the use of the word “humiliation” in 1863.
ARTICLE:
http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/bpf/pathways/lincoln.html
“A Day Of National Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer in the The United States Of America on April 30, 1863.”