Contents
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Foerster, Norman
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PREFACE: Norman Foerster
THE PRETENSIONS OF SCIENCE: Louis Trenchard More
HUMANISM: AN ESSAY AT DEFINITION: Irving Babbitt
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THE HUMILITY OF COMMON SENSE: Paul Elmer More
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THE PRIDE OF MODERNITY: G. R. Elliott
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RELIGION WITHOUT HUMANISM: T. S. Eliot
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THE PLIGHT OF OUR ARTS: Frank Jewett Mather, Jr.
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THE DILEMMA OF MODERN TRAGEDY: Alan Reynolds Thompson
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AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY: Robert Shafer
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PANDORA’S BOX IN AMERICAN FICTION: Harry Hayden Clark
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DIONYSUS IN DISMAY: Stanley P. Chase
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OUR CRITICAL SPOKESMEN: Gorham B. Munson
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BEHAVIOUR AND CONTINUITY: Bernard Bandler II
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THE WELL OF DISCIPLINE: Sherlock Bronson Gass
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COURAGE AND EDUCATION: Richard Lindley Brown
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A LIST OF BOOKS
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The essence of Elizabethan as of other humanisms is the understanding of man and the definition of the sphere of properly human activity. The philosophical mind of Shakespeare’s age began the work of reflection by cleaving the universe along three levels. On the lowest level is the natural world, which is the plane of instinct, appetite, animality, lust, the animal passions or affections; on this level the regulation is by necessary or natural law. On the middle level is the human world, which is regulated and, in a sense, created by the will and knowledge of man; working upon the natural world; but governed by reason, the special human faculty; and illuminated more or less from the level above. On the third level is the supernatural world, which is the plane of spiritual beings, and the home of eternal ideas.
—STUART P. SHERMAN: “ON CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE.”