Word: humanisme
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Always a humanist, McGovern proclaims. "This land of ours, this people of ours must see that we have been taught to view ourselves as competitors, and we have come to see our fellow humans in that spirit....We have lost compassion." But never forgetting the reality of politics, he translates...
"Poetry seems to come out of the Hebraic Christian tradition of humanism," he explains. "The humanistic tradition is destroyed in the big, industrial technological civilizations. In certain islands, the great universities like Harvard and certain Southern universities, we still have it, but it's not the prevailing culture any longer...
Forster is dead. I miss him and I should not. He died last year, a ninety-year-old man with a ninety-year-old vision--a product of English liberal humanism who believed in the old virtues. Individualism, tolerance, tradition, the Human Spirit, an aristocracy of the good, the Christian...
He was a liberal humanist, and for that we can forgive him. And he was an ironist, for that we can thank him. The publication of Maurice is his last act of ironic humanism.
Such is bourgeois humanism: exasperatingly scrupulous, often soft-minded, infuriating, but it is where we come from.