Humanism and America

[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.