Excerpt from The Philosophy of Humanism: And of Other Subjects
If I had called this book The Philosophy of Humanism without more, that title would virtually have covered its scope. But the reader would not have had his attention drawn to the significance which the word 'Humanism' imports for myself.
To avoid misinterpretation I have therefore added in the title the words and of Other Subjects. Part I, which is concerned with Humanism in its restricted sense, contains the substance of three Donnellan lectures delivered this summer at Trinity College, Dublin.
In a volume published last year, The Reign of Relativity, I sought to lay the foundations of a view of the uniqueness distinctive of individuality which would show the relation of its principle to that of the general relativity of reality to knowledge. This view is carried further in the present volume, which is a companion one to that of a year ago.
As regards two of the scientific subjects discussed, I am under much indebtedness for counsel and assistance while working out the principle. Professor A. N. Whitehead, F.R.S., has gone over the proofs of the three chapters devoted to mathematical physics. My brother, Professor J. S. Haldane, F.R.S., has done the same for the chapter on biology.
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