captured and the brilliant period of history known as the Renaissance was ushered in and the modern man characterized by questioning and thought came on the scene.

The first century after the Renaissance was the sixteenth and as religion was the major interest of the Middle Ages, it was the first area of culture to feel the force of the new thinking and the outcome was the Reformation which broke forever the hold of the authoritarianism of the Catholic Church. The seventeenth century was marked by the application of rational thinking to the natural world and science and discovery resulted; the eighteenth to the political world and absolutism in government went by the board; the nineteenth to the industrial world and the democracy of trade unionism resulted; the twentieth to all human relationships and the fixity of tradition has been broken in many fields. It is here that for the first time sex relations can be examined in the light of scientific and rational thinking and homosexuals have the hope that emotional prejudice and bias may give way to a truer and more just evaluation.

While the humanistic principle of free inquiry is far from complete application to the concerns of man's search for welfare and happiness, it has made a magnificent start and has influenced all types of philosophy. More specifically and explicitly the term scientific humanism is coming to represent the thinking of intelligent people especially in the rejection of most of the supernaturalism so long taught by the authoritarian religions. It is a man-centered belief, he having emerged from nature as result of a continuous process and become a free agent in the seeking of his own destiny. To be sure he is a product of his inheritance acted upon

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by the natural and social environment, but as an active participant in it he has the ability and the duty to help remold it, that is, take an increasing part in solving its problems. He is at this stage an active and conscious agent in his own evolution. The test of all action, purpose, and experience as well as of all social institutions is their human significance. Humanism is concerned with art, science, labor, friendship, love-all that is expressive of satisfying human. living. The realization and fulfillment of human personality are the aim of all of man's living and the fact that it takes place in a social setting makes it incumbent upon him to work constantly for social betterment. Rational attitudes and processes of free inquiry are to be central to all education. Emotional satisfactions grow out of the enjoyment of art, literature, music, drama, nature, and participation in the cooperative effort to promote social well-being. In sum (quoting from the Humanist Manifesto): Man alone is responsible for the realization of the world of his dreams and has within himself the power to work for its achievement. He must set intelligence and will to the task of realizing the good life for all men everywhere.

Thus, according to this philosophy, the homosexual has within himself the power to make and determine his own life through the agency of his own intelligence. He is not dependent upon some mystical and supernatural agency working within the shadow, whom he may never know and whose negative blows he must accept with equanimity. But he is still not alone. The brotherhood "which makes all men one" is with him and in association with kindred spirits working for the same goals and ideals he may find a deeper satisfaction than he had hitherto known. One has here the deeper meaning of One Institute.

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