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100	1		_aFoerster, Norman, _d1887-1972
245	1	0	_aHumanism and America
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-03-05
505	0		_aPreface, by Norman Foerster -- The pretensions of science, by Louis Trenchard More -- Humanism: an essay at definition, by Irving Babbitt -- The humility of common sense, by Paul Elmer More -- The pride of modernity, by G. R. Elliott -- Religion without humanism, by T. S. Eliot -- The plight of our arts, by Frank Jewett Mather, Jr. -- The dilemma of modern tragedy, by Alan Reynolds Thompson -- An American tragedy, by Robert Shafer -- Pandora's box in American fiction, by Harry Hayden Clark -- Dionysus in dismay, by Stanley P. Chase -- Our critical spokesmen, by Gorham B. Munson -- Behaviour and continuity, by Bernard Bandler, II -- The well of discipline, by Sherlock Bronson Gass -- Courage and education, by Richard Lindley Brown -- A list of [humanistic] books published since 1900.
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520			_a"Humanism and America" by Norman Foerster is an edited collection of essays written in the early 20th century. It argues for a disciplined, classical humanism as a corrective to modern scepticism, scientism, and cultural disarray, especially in the United States. The volume surveys ethics, religion, literature, the arts, and education through contributions from leading critics and scholars. The opening of the collection presents a preface that diagnoses a modern “headache” of noise, disillusion, and naturism, and proposes humanism—defined by clear standards and a firm distinction between man, nature, and the divine—as a restorative discipline. The editor situates American humanism chiefly in the work of Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More, rebuts charges that humanists are academic, un-American, reactionary, or puritanical, and sets the book’s aim: to clarify terms, restore standards, and address contemporary life across the arts and public discourse. The first essay, by Louis Trenchard More, restricts true science to quantitative laws about the objective world, exposes the overreach of pseudo-sciences like psychology and sociology, retraces the historical split between objective method and subjective life from Galileo, Descartes, and Newton, and criticizes modern hypotheses (æthers, electrons, relativity, quanta) when treated as metaphysical truth. The next essay, by Irving Babbitt, defines humanism as allegiance to the law of measure, decorum, and poise—distinct from humanitarian sentiment—and argues for a stable centre in human nature, drawing parallels with Confucian thought, acknowledging religion’s support, and grounding ethics in a higher will that disciplines temperament. Together, these opening sections set the terms and program: replacing relativism and scientism with standards rooted in character, discrimination, and measure. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1930
653			_aPhilosophy, Modern
653			_aLiterature -- Philosophy
653			_aHumanism
653			_aUnited States -- Civilization -- 20th century
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/humanismamerica00foer/page/n5/mode/2up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78119
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