NEW STYLES OF HUMANISM AMERICAN YOUTH

But there can be no stranger illusion-and it is an illusion we nearly all share-than this, that because the tools of life are today more specialized and more refined than ever before, that because the technique brought by science is more perfect than anything the world has yet known, it necessarily follows that we are in like degree attaining to a profounder harmony of life, to a deeper and more satisfying culture... Civilization, as a whole, moves on; culture comes and goes.-Edward Sapir, &dquo;Culture, Genuine and Spurious&dquo; THE YOUNG AMERICANS whom I have called the &dquo;new humanists&dquo; comprise a small, amorphous, and highly visible aggregate which do not constitute a true movement in any strict sense of the term. They are, in my opinion, exploring new ways of attaining a meaningful existence in times of drastic change and ceaseless turbulence, and in these explora-tions, certain themes emerge which unite them ideologically and psychologically, but only occasionally in common actions. In thei