Noun

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The human race in its entirety.

*{{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black), chapter=2, title= Internal Combustion

, passage=More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.}}

Men collectively, as opposed to all women.

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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

(lb) Human feelings; humanity.

:(Ben Jonson)