(1) The result of these authors seem
in many respects dissimilar, and I understand
them as yet but imperfectly; but I cannot help
suspecting that the direction of their work is
very promising, and that they have the hunter's
instinct for the fruitful trails.
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1 [Cf. _A_Pluralistic_Universe_, Lect. VI (on Bergson); H. Bergson:
_Creative_Evolution_, trans. by A. Mitchell; C.A. Strong:
_Why_the_Mind_Has_a_Body_, ch. XII. ED.]
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VII
THE ESSENCE OF HUMANISM(1)
HUMANISM is a ferment that has 'come to
stay.'(2) It is not a single hypothesis of theorem,
and it dwells on no new facts. It is
rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective,
making things appear as from a new
centre of interest or point of sight. Some
writers are strongly conscious of the shifting,
others half unconscious, even though their own
vision may have undergone much change. The
result is no small confusion in debate, the half-conscious
humanists often taking part against
the radical ones, as if they wished to count
upon the other side.(3)
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