Word: humanisme
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"From the days of the French Revolution onwards a new religion has been taking possession of the souls of men-a religion of secular humanism. The main articles of this faith are that the exercise of reason and the extension of education are in themselves enough to purify and strengthen...
To a U.S. reporter, Connolly grinned that "according to your standards, I'm just a sissy writer." But he has a horror of becoming too fashionable: "We don't want to be known as the Vogue of literature." To avoid that, he pledged the magazine "to work for...
Charlie Chaplin, in the midst of thorny court troubles at home, suddenly got a red, red rose from abroad. Russian and Czech cinemen sent him a telegram expressing "deep respect to you . . . who . . . have always defended the principles of humanism."
"Yet this is the very logic which explodes the theory itself. What safety can there ever be in a hereditary monarchy when even a ruler with a fairly enlightened point of view is nothing but the tool of the faction in power? . . . The religious zeal of Japanese loyalty and patriotism...
Although leaders declared that "a break with the Federal Council has not been made a prerequisite for membership in the Association," nothing good was said about the Federal Council. Noting that the Council claims to represent 23,000,000 Protestants, the Association declared that left some 24,000,000 others...