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 existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

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

It is the religious impulse which supplies the cohesive force which unifies a society and a culture... A society which has lost its religion becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its culture.

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

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.

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.