Word: humanisme
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Secondly, Mr. Chase writes an attack on science and a defense of humanism. This portion of his article will provide abundant material for what in simpler circles than those of Harvard undergraduates are called "bull sessions." "For after all," he writes, "facts, especially scientific facts, are the most untruthful things...
The number as a whole does leave one pretty clear impression. The writers are, in various degrees of intensity, all espousing a Cause, all embracing a Truth, all anxious to rescue their fellows from aimlessness and unbelief. They would probably all agree that Liberalism Is Bankrupt (though here I may...
With the twentieth century and the war came a closer approach to comprehension. Sinclair Lewis, Dreiser, Mencken, furnished blocks for the building; but none was sufficient architect to complete the edifice. Others were sidetracked, as Irving Babbitt to Humanism, Thornton Wilder to Catholicism, Krutch, Jeffers, and Faulkner to Pessimism. Hemingway...
So Professor Mercier defines humanism, and he does a very good job of defining something to which he is attached, without sentiment and without heroics. He could not, in truth, be a good humanist otherwise.
Humanism is a great deal more than an attitude toward art and letters. It has a sociology as important as its psychology. Aristotle's social animal is permitted by the humanist to have a safe refuge, the "Civitas Del, so dear to the Middle Ages, from the potential tyranny of...