Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.
Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.
Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.