Reasonable and manly attitudes will be fostered by education and supported by custom. We assume that humanism will take the path of social and mental hygiene and discourage sentimental and unreal hopes and wishful thinking. The intelligent evaluation, transformation, control, and direction of such associations and institutions with a view to the enhancement of human life is the purpose and program of humanism. Certainly religious institutions, their ritualistic forms ecclesiastical methods, and communal activities must be reconstituted as rapidly as experience allows, in order to function effectively in the modern world. The goal of humanism is a free and universal society in which people voluntarily and intelligently co-operate for the common good.
Humanists demand a shared life in a shared world.
By this positive morale and intention humanism will be guided, and from this perspective and alignment the techniques and efforts of humanism will flow. All rights reserved.