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Grunted Lawyer Clarence Darrow, denying a report that he had joined a Humanist society (TIME, Sept. 26): "I don't take any stock in organized religion. Everybody knows that. I haven't joined up with any organization, so far as I remember. But I'm in sympathy with the Humanist movement and I'm just as liable to join them...
Without yielding one whit of his famed agnosticism, Lawyer Clarence Darrow joined a church - the First Unitarian Society (Humanist) of Minneapolis...
John Dewey, philosopher, humanist LL.D...
Irving Babbitt, Humanist, Harvard professor L.H.D...
...title essay and that on "The Critic and American Life" bear a marked similarity. Professor Babbitt tells the present age that it is denying standards, repudiating, as did the earliest romanticists, the Christian and humanist traditions. Untraditional as we believe ourselves today, we are as confused as any men of a century ago. We are the victims of a "jazzy impressionism;" "still", he admits, "our naturalistic deliquescence has probably not gone so far as one might infer from poetry like that of Mr. Sandburg or fiction like that of Mr. Dos Passos." When one reads the ponderous latinities into which...