Word: humanistic
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...topics which he treated-logic, ethics, metaphysics, the history of Philosophy, the history of the United States, political economy, theology, The Bible, Latin, poetry, mathematics-attests his belief in the unity of knowledge and in the value of all its parts for personal culture. He was a humanist, not a specialist. The nature of man was his central interest, but he prized all studies as illuminating this, and as showing the relation of finite man to an infinite personality...