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He would have been an awkward member of the party; for, though the most appreciative humanist, the most ideal religionist, even the best-versed Christologist of the three, there was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him.

On the way Don Quixote asked the cousin of what sort and character his pursuits, avocations, and studies were, to which he replied that he was by profession a humanist, and that his pursuits and studies were making books for the press, all of great utility and no less entertainment to the nation.

Calhoun said: "A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks." And that great humanist, Abraham Lincoln, said, just before his assassination: "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

Bassett was a scientist first, a humanist afterward.

The word 'human,' indeed, became the chosen motto of the Renaissance scholars; 'humanists' was the title which they applied to themselves as to men for whom 'nothing human was without appeal.' New creative enthusiasm, also, and magnificent actual new creation, followed the discovery of the old treasures, creation in literature and all the arts; culminating particularly in the early sixteenth century in the greatest group of painters whom any country has ever seen, Lionardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo.

In March, Humanists UK released a report on humanist marriages in Scotland, conducted using statistics obtained through a freedom of information request.

ON THE centenary of the end of the First World War, a humanist representative will take part and speak at the Welsh National Service of Remembrance.

Humanists Laura Lacole and Eunan O'Kane have been granted legal authority by the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland to have their Humanists UK-accredited humanist celebrant conduct a legal marriage ceremony for them.

Moreover, her efforts to contextualize the popes' strategies and achievements by exploring the response of humanist observers, like Poggio, Alberti, Signorili, Lapo, Biondo, and Manetti, offers both complexity and verisimilitude.

It is heartening, therefore, to see that the marriage bill passing through Parliament now includes a provision for Humanist, nonreligious weddings to be given the same legal status that religious weddings now enjoy.

Only last year, the British Humanist Association's request for Armed Forces' Humanists to be included at the London Cenotaph was denied.

For the first time in its 66-year history, the American Humanist Association has joined forces with a lobbying group - the Secular Coalition for America - and last year launched its own legal center - Appignani - a collection of pro bono lawyers who will keep the American Civil Liberties Union company in taking on church-state separation cases.