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Humanism and the Religious Question

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Leo R. Ward
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The one question on which our American humanists have never come to anything like agreement is the religious question. They have some common understanding on the nature of will and of the higher will, and on the subordinate relationship of intellect to will, on the need of discipline, and on the inevitability of degrees in society. But they remain of several minds on religion. More went what is called Anglican though he stayed in this country; T. S. Eliot went Anglican and also anglophile, at least till more recent times. No one knows just what Babbitt religiously was; some have said liberal Protestant, some have said his higher will is divine and sometimes his own words allow this interpretation, and some have said he is remote first and last from Christianity but is an oriental saint.

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , October 1940 , pp. 477 - 487
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1940

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References

1 See especially Literature and The American College, ch. 1, and Democracy and Leadership, ch. 4; also Elliott, G. R., Humanism and Imagination, Chapel Hill, 1938Google Scholar.

2 Platonism, 2nd ed., p. 91, note.

3 P. E. More, On Being Human.

4 This is particularly true of his The American Stale University.

5 His strictures on religion without humanism are expressed in the well-known work by humanists, Humanism and America: and his—much better— statement on humanism without religion is given in “Second Thoughts about Humanism,” Hound and Horn, June, 1929.

6 Our Human Truths, New York: Columbia University Press, 1939, pp. x–371, $2.50Google Scholar.

7 Man the Measure, Princeton University Press, 1939Google Scholar.

8 The Human Enterprise, New York: Crofts and Co., 1940, pp. ix–385, $2.25Google Scholar.

9 True Humanism, tr. by Adamson, : New York: Scribners, 1938, xvii–304, $3.50Google Scholar.

10 Maritain's personalistic pluralism is developed also in his Freedom in the Modern World, New York: Scribners, 1936Google Scholar.