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Humanism (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠worships humanity as a cult ends shut in upon itself — and in Fascism.

Humanism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠now claimed by everyone — Christians, Marxists, liberals — as a way of refusing, in the last resort, to commit oneself.

Humanism (n.) lives ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠off its opponents: it digests anti-intellectualism, mysticism, pessimism, anarchy and egotism and makes a white, frothy lymph of them.

Humanism (n.) comes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in a swarm of rival kinds — loving men as they are, as they ought to be, saving them with or without their consent — and they all hate each other: as individuals, naturally, not as men.

Humanism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠grounded in the idea that there is no legislator outside man. He himself, thus abandoned, must decide for himself. It is not by turning back but by seeking beyond himself that man realizes himself as truly human.

Humanism (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the "Man is magnificent!" kind lets a passenger who never built an airplane take credit for it — and only a dog or a horse could judge man magnificent, which they have never been such fools as to do.