Word: humanistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morals is valuable for being at once fundamental and clear, unbiased and persuasive. Author Russell tries to go to the root of each of his ideas, to explain asceticism, romanticism. He takes nothing for granted, not even that parents are beneficial for their children. He writes as a humanist, defending the happiness of man against many moral prejudices, advocates his changes lucidly and wittily...
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 the growth of the new movement...
Only one of Religionist Potter's announced tenets was revolutionary. "Humanist" weddings, he said, would be quiet, simple. Couples would be encouraged to compose their own ceremony...
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 repudiate Potter." Walter Lippmann said: "No connection whatever." Said Irving Babbitt: "His use of word humanism has almost nothing in common with mine...
...Schmitz was never brought to trial. Only Abraham Ruef was convicted, sent to San Quentin for 14 years. Peculiarly enough, the sentence of Ruef was more sorrowful to Editor Older than his failure to convict the others. Always an intense reader, he became at about this time a Tolstoyan humanist. He started writing fiercely uplifting editorials asking for-and obtaining-Ruef's parole. Explaining it, he says...