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Materialism should not be depressing if you know you were simply atoms, there is no point in my living in fear. Worrying about what God's may do to me or the torments of adventures may wait in my future. The atomic theory made democritis so light-hearted that he was known as the laughing philosopher freed from cosmic dread. He will able to chuckle at human foibles rather than weep over them.

EM Forster humanism could better be honored by reciting a list of the things one has enjoyed or found interesting of the people who have helped one and of the people who won has loved and tried to help. The list would not be dramatic. It would lack the seniority of a creed and the solemnity of a sanction, but it could be recited confidently for human gratitude and human hopefulness would be speaking.

Humanism is pe