Gen 1.11 And God sayd: let the erth bringe forth herbe and grasse that sowe seed and frutefull trees that bere frute every one in his kynde havynge their seed in them selves upon the erth. And it came so to passe:
Gen 1.12 and the erth brought forth herbe and grasse sowenge sees every one in his kynde and treses berynge frute and havynge their seed in the selves every one in his kynde. And God sawe that it was good.
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BBC Radio Four is celebrating the anniversary of the King James Bible with selected essays and readings. These are available at this link from Monday, 10 January: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xh4sm
'Kind', meaning a category of kinship, appears to have dropped out of the English language; it survives mainly in the phrase 'kind of'. Discourses of science have taught us to speak of species and genus. Yet we describe the best of human behaviour as 'kind'. Adam Philips and Barbara Taylor's book On Kindness (2008) is one of several recent philosophical revaluations of kindness as a powerful human impulse and social force.
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