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...speech sponsored by the Humanist Forum, Enfield said that the 1991 Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision was a defeat for the pro-choice movement. That decision granted stronger powers to the states to regulate abortion, she said...
...view of man obviously depends on our view of God. The Age of Reason exalted humankind but still admitted God as a sort of supreme philosopher-king or chairman of the board who ultimately presided over the glories achieved by reason and science. The humanist 19th century voted him out. It increasingly saw reason and science irreconcilably opposed to religion, which would fade away...
Michael Psellos: The Clever Humanist--by John Duffy, proffessor of classics, University of Maryland. Boylston Hall Auditorium...
This son of a Paduan carpenter, who rose to become the cynosure of every humanist eye in northern Italy, once sent a gang of thugs to bash up a printer who fell foul of him, and then had the poor man denounced for sodomy -- a crime that, in 15th century Venice, carried the death penalty. Mantegna could also be sardonic and disrespectful to tardy patrons, up to and including the Pope himself. When Innocent VIII hired him to decorate the chapel of the Villa Belvedere in the Vatican, he was puzzled to see, tacked onto allegorical roundels of the Seven...
...conventional themes that the book very amply explores include the humanist gardens of renaissance Italy, Baroque and classical gardens and the English landscape garden. The more eccentric essays outline the relationship between garden history and cartography, and the phenomenon of the amusement park...