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...about the name itself. A brief footnote dismisses, with restraint, those left-wing Unitarians who have appropriated the name to describe a sort of non-religious religion based on extreme naturalism--the antithesis of traditional humanism. A vigorous effort is made to prove the continuity of the New or Babbittian Humanism with that first use of the word, to describe the effort of Erasmus and his contemporaries to place the "literae human-iores" beside the "literae divinae" which claimed a monopoly of medieval erudition. Rabelais, Montaigne and Babbitt are found together, all on the side of the angels: the famous...
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