ABSTRACT
To adopt, by hypothesis, the ideas and beliefs of the person to whom we are speaking at the time of speaking is a difficult exercise, but not an impossible one. It is, for example, the attitude which the practising psychologist, the mental physician, is bound, willy nilly, to adopt; for he necessarily adapts himself to the psychism of his patients, as the bodily physician adapts his prescriptions to the temperament of his patients. Apart from relativism, there is another very valuable basis of tolerance and by this we always mean a respectful tolerance. This other basis is what we may call humanism. It is to admit that the human being is worthy of unconditional respect. And that ideas and beliefs are die efflorescences and expressions of the human, before being, in a diverse but always relative and modest degree, what we may call the approach works investing reality.
