The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

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.

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

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

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

It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life.

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum