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Inside the cathedral was tremulous with the yellow light of a thousand candles. Years dead is Belgium's great Cardinal Mercier, but his successor, Cardinal van Roey, Archbishop of Malines, sang the Solemn Requiem Mass in sombre black and silver vestments. Though it is a strict rule of Belgian court etiquet that women shall not appear at state funerals, neither etiquet nor prostration from grief could keep gentle Queen Elisabeth from her husband's funeral.† Heavily veiled she slipped through a side door from the sacristy, and took her place on the dais beside President Albert Lebrun...
...Professor Mercier defines humanism, and he does a very good job of defining something to which he is attached, without sentiment and without heroics. He could not, in truth, be a good humanist otherwise...
...sudden capture of the national attention by humanism in the year 1930," says Professor Mercier, "might at first seem strange." Strange, but not unprecedented. To a large section of the national attention, the New Humanism was only one more new doctrine in a long train--transcendentalism, pragmatism, New Thought, Christian Science--which had suddenly captured in turn various intellectual layers of the popular imagination. The national attention which humanism captured probably grasped little more of it than the fact that it was something earnestly preached by Irving Babbitt which had a great deal to say against Rousseau, and that...
...title might be misleading. A book with such a title is generally in opposition and in reply to the challenge. But Professor Mercier is one of the challengers, and the challengees are all those who feel confident that the new and revolutionary philosophies of the last few hundred years are putting us on the right track, however confusedly. The book is a set of definitions and explanations: most useful in the welter of shibboleths and manifestoes that have been piling up under the heading of humanism in the last few years...
...chuckles continually. No nitwit is he, although he says of a steam engine device newly invented by his brother in Geneva: "It does something about the puff-puff-the exhaust-but I am not sure what it is." The Catholic University of Louvain educated him; the late Cardinal Mercier ordained him; M. I. T. taught him physics and English; Louvain created for him a chair of relativity. At 39 he deals with Nobel laureates...