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As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to... →
American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature... →
The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to... →
You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these... →
For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil... →
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western... →
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once... →
Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which... →
Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the... →
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.
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