The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.

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Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

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The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

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The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

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Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.

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Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

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Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

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Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.

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But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

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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 destroy.

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