Word: humanisme
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I greatly fear one thing. If men will not clothe the bare framework of science with the warm garments of true humanism, they will end up by making machines their god and mathematics their only dogma. The rising paganism of the western world will make our civilization cold as interstellar...
One of the 20th century's more fashionable agnostic creeds is "scientific humanism." That creed is not without its heresies, and in last week's humanistic New Statesman and Nation, competitors matched wits in naming them. Samples:
Three cheers for Mrs. Margaret Knight and her BBC trilogy on scientific humanism and "Morals Without Religion" [TIME, Jan. 24]. A breath of humanistic fresh air would do a world of good in our country, where the traditional orthodoxies have made a farce of morality . . .
Twice during the Thirties Lamont visited Soviet Russia. Among the books he has written is one entitled: You Might Like socialism. "I dedicated this volume to my friends of the Harvard Class of 1924," Lamont says, "but have yet to hear that I made any converts among them." But he...
Margaret Knight, fortyish, wife of a psychology professor at Aberdeen University and herself a part-time lecturer on the subject, had asked the BBC if she might broadcast her views on what she called "scientific humanism." The BBC duly scheduled her for three talks on its Home Service. Her subject...