Word: humanisme
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"Humanism and the Reformation", Professor Burkhard, Germanic Museum.
Many religiously-minded moderns believe that unless organized religion stops seeking old, elusive gods and identifies itself with scientific humanism in an attempt to improve Man, it is doomed to perish from the earth. Five able pedagogs subscribed to this belief in a letter which they sent last week to...
Religionist Potter did not even claim to be the originator of "Humanism." Said he: "A new religion has suddenly and simultaneously appeared in many quarters. . . . From California to New York, and even in India and Japan, Humanist groups are in process of formation, and every week brings fresh news of...
"Humanism's" tenets, described as new, inspiring, scientific, proved to be tangential, vague. "Humanists unanimously agree in rejecting the supernatural. This is the great dividing line between them and all other religions of today. . . . So fundamental is the distinction between supernatural religion and Humanism, that there are those who...
Other leaders in the Humanist movement, said Religionist Potter, were Irving Babbitt, Walter Lippmann, Paul Elmer More. Evidently he referred to Babbitt's, Lippmann's, More's cultural attitude, not their religious faith. Paul Elmer More, ( philosopher and critic, is a devout Episcopalian. Said he: "I utterly...