Humanism and America : $b Essays on the outlook of modern civilisation
Philosophy
Humanism and America : $b Essays on the outlook of modern civilisation
Humanism; Literature -- Philosophy; Philosophy, Modern; United States -- Civilization -- 20th century
Note.--For a humanistic view of the field of education, the reader
may be referred to an article by Irving Babbitt, “President Eliot
and American Education,” in the _Forum_, January, 1929, or to his
book on _Literature and the American College: Essays in Defence
of the Humanities_ (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1908). See also Norman
Foerster’s recent book, _The American Scholar: A Study in Litteræ
Inhumaniores_ (University of North Carolina Press, 1929).--Editor.
FOOTNOTES
[2] For an outline of Chinese humanism, see the article by Chang
Hsin-Hai in the _Hibbert Journal_ for April, 1928 (“The Essentials of
Confucian Wisdom”).
[3] See _The Conduct of Life_, translation of the _Tsung Yung_ by Ku
Hung Ming (Wisdom of the East series), p. 55.
[4] “Unum hoc animal sentit quid sit ordo, quid sit quod deceat, in
factis dictisque qui modus.” _De Officiis_, Lib. I.
[5] See _Analects_ (Wisdom of the East series), p. 109.
[6] “Conclusion” to his volume _The Renaissance_.
[7] For Pater’s definition of humanism see the end of his essay on Pico
della Mirandola (_The Renaissance_).
[8] See _L’Inde el le Monde_, pp. 32, 165.
[9] See, for example, the symposium entitled _Humanist Sermons_ edited
by C. W. Reese (1927). On page 60 of this volume one encounters the
statement that “all Americans are humanists”! For a fuller elucidation
of the distinction between the humanist and the humanitarian see the
opening chapters of my book _Literature and the American College_
(1908).
[10] See my book _Democracy and Leadership_, p. 25.
[11] For the different meanings that this maxim may have see the last
chapter of my book _The Masters of Modern French Criticism_.
[12] See “The Mucker Pose” by James Truslow Adams, _Harper’s Magazine_,
November, 1928; reprinted in _Our Business Civilisation_ (1929).
[13] For the early hostility of certain Christians to Graeco-Roman
culture and the final reconciliation between this culture and the
Church, see E. K. Rand’s _Founders of the Middle Ages_, _passim_. _Cf._
also P. E. More’s “Paradox of Oxford” (_Shelburne Essays_, Vol. IX).
[14] See Ch. V of _Democracy and Leadership_ (“Europe and Asia”); also
Appendix A (“Theories of the Will”).
[15] _The Ideas of the Fall and of Original Sin_ (Bampton Lectures for
1924). See p. 331.
[16] “Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.”
[17] Confucianism is of course primarily humanistic.
_The Humility of Common Sense_[18]
PAUL ELMER MORE
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