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Your two articles on the "Knights of the Church" and "Humanists, 1952" in the Sept.1 issue seem to indicate that because the former director general of UNESCO, Julian Huxley, is an ardent humanist (as defined in your article), UNESCO is following in its activities principles which are contrary to Catholic moral theology (e.g., birth control). May I point out, as a Catholic member of UNESCO, that Dr. Huxley, while director general of the organization, carefully avoided mixing his personal views-which he always freely professed-with the official programme and gave a shining example of objectivity, tolerance and fair play...
...DEVILS OF LOUDUN (340 pp.)-Aldous Huxley-Harper...
...opening day of the convention, British Biologist Julian Huxley, former head of UNESCO, proposed launching a formal humanist religion. Present religions, he felt, are doing the job badly, and insisting too much on supernatural beliefs and absolute truth. Specifically, he suggested, the Roman Catholic stand on birth control and India's belief in sacred cows are good examples of religion's retarding influence...
...streamline the religious approach, Huxley outlined a new faith of the future: "Evolutionary humanism . . . firm yet flexible, simple yet rich and capable of development." He continued: "Man has the possibility of guiding change by means of conscious purpose in the light of rational experience . . . Man's past includes a primarily religious phase. We now live in a technological and rationalist age. The next phase of history could and . . . should be a humanist phase...
...After Huxley's talk the humanists sat down to evaluate his thesis. There was vague disagreement. Some felt that any religion-even a humanist variety-is unscientific. Others doubted that evolutionary humanism would readily attract converts. A French delegate put his finger on a traditional humanist problem. "What troubles me," he said, "is that we're in the clouds...