PART II. The Foundations of Humanism

THE FOUNDATIONS OF HUMANISM

Introduction 143

VIII. Golden Memories 145

IX. The Insight of Humanism 152 1. The Two Approaches to Life 152 2. Freedom and Restraint 153 3. The Ascetic Principle 158 4. Oscillation between Two Principles 164 5. The Golden Mean and Its Difficulties 166 6. The Matrix of Humanism 171 7. The Career of the Soul 175 8. The Passage into Maturity 183 9. The Function of High Religion 191

X. High Religion and the Modern World 194 1. Popular Religion and the Great Teachers 194 2. The Aristocratic Principle 197 3. The Peculiarity of the Modern Situation 200 4. The Stone Which the Builders Rejected 203