Moderne Humanitas
Modern Humanity

Summary/Abstract: There has been a world which raised man on the shield as he went "forward". There has been a mo-vement called humanism. Certainly there have also been periods which characterized a tolerably gene-ral humanity - for the personal always did and will exist. But no one will be in doubt about the fact that this shield, upon which man was once elevated, has long since been reduced, and that he must, more or less, merely to shield the inhuman from the view of the fellow-world. The fact that one considers it advisable to be inhuman, but at the same time to appear humane, speaks for the decaying respect which one is still paying to the wishes and needs of our contemporaries, but nevertheless for the ret-reat on which man is situated. In this country (Germany) , where people like to sacrifice prudence to a heroic slogan, humanity was considered at this time an insipid hokum. As in other regions as well „humanity“, smilar to „frreedom“ has just the reputation of a bourgeois pre-judice.

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