How And How Not-To Love Mankind By Theodore Dalrymple

“How-and How Not-to love mankind”, written by the English writer, retired prison doctor, Theodore Dalrymple, is an inspiring and revealing article. Through this essay, the author has explained the welfare of humanity and love to mankind. He wrote that everyone in the earth declare that they care the poor people and show humanity to them. Even the criminals or killers also claim that they are doing such things for the sake of people and to protect them. It seems as if there are different versions of good and bad. It all depends on the people way of life and their thinking and beliefs. He actually wants to acknowledge people about the right ways to love human including animals and aware the negative version of love.
Dalrymple explains the two famous writers and philosophers, who born in the same century, whose lives matched to each other and have same careers, also can have totally opposite thoughts about mankind. He describes the two great European writers of the nineteenth century, Ivan Turgenev and Karl Marx and their articles too. Turgenev always characterized positivity and love and all the positive emotions especially to the poor while Marx portrayed the negativity, hatred rather than such sorrow and compassion. Marx claimed to have love and welfare of people at heart, but he does not seem interested in people at all despite he leads the way towards the anti-human nightmare of Communist societies. However, Turgenev have genuine love and care for people and able to see