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Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or 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.
-William James
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William James
Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or 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.
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