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- 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…
- If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life…
- Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its…
- 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…
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