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· To recognize that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act toward one another in a spirit of kinship [adapted from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights].
Authors' names are used for chapter titles, which are arranged alphabetically on the Home Page. Extracts from a particular author or authors can be reached by clicking on the appropriate chapter title on the Home Page. On this and similar pages, underlined words can be clicked on as an alternative to the buttons of the same name.
Clicking on Timeline on the Home Page provides a list of the time periods covered. Within each time period, the authors are arranged chronologically (by date of birth, where this is known) together with brief biographies. Clicking on an author's name within a time period takes you to the a set of extracts from that author, together with a brief introduction and a list of sources.
Clicking on Guide on the Home Page provides a means of searching for topics or words. Index provides a tabulation of authors in which particular ideas occur, in terms of principal words or phrases.
A discussion of the picture of humanism that emerges from this set of extracts can be reached by clicking on Humanism at the top of this Background Page.
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