ABSTRACT
Most of the Humanists are professors who have done little but apply the master's formulae: most of their opponents are writers outside the academic pale who are trying to utilize Humanism in their struggles with a very unregenerate environment. But the critics of Humanism agree in stressing three departments of human life which their opponents have dealt with incompetently or not at all: love, the fine arts, and contemporary America. It is asserted on all sides that the Humanists are Puritans in disguise: and three of their critics rush valiantly to defend Johann Wolfgang Goethe's right to have love affairs at seventy. The three limitations of orthodox Humanism go far toward showing us their true place and importance. Probably the most serious consideration of Humanism is to be found in Mr. Tate's essay, 'The Fallacy of Humanism', which has already been published in nearly the same form in the Criterion and the Hound and Horn.
