Word: humanisme
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Founders of new religions are apt to announce that they have been sent by God, that their teaching is divinely inspired, themselves the definitive prophet. Not so Religionist Charles Francis Potter. Last week he hired a hall (Steinway) in Manhattan, packed it (capacity 244), turned away hundreds. Making no audible...
There was a time before the glories of modern printing had penetrated to the lives of even the humblest inhabitants, when each man wrote in his own hand a short autobiography to be filed with others in his class. Like other matters in and around Cambridge when Harvard had an...
In A Preface to Morals he analyzes that debacle in religion, in politics, art. He demonstrates that the humanism of the disillusioned sages tallies with modern psychology; he predicates the elastic sort of humanism that will fit a changing age.
The announcement that Princeton has established a department of world finance is another blow to the venerable sentiment that the college exists only to instill the spirit of humanism. The introduction of the study of international commercial relations clearly indicates to what extent the demand for practical education has developed...
"Medieval Humanism", E. K. Rand, Sever 14.