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Are You Human?

By: William DeWitt Hyde
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 CAST into the metal of the bell of my old school, The Phillips Exeter Academy, are these words: — “Huc venite pueri ut viri sitis” “Come here, boys, to become men.” Kant defined education as “the process by which man becomes man.” We are not born men; nor do we come to manhood automatically on reaching one and twenty. To become human we have to take up and fulfill our human relationships.

Of these I have selected the dozen most important. Merely to describe them, however, would do little good. Instead, on each of these relations, or humanities, I shall ask three rather searching questions: which, honestly answered, will show you how big or small a man you are; and how much you still have to attain.

My three questions in each case will be: Are you human? or unhuman? or inhuman? The twelve humanities are: athletics, society, science, art, history, philosophy, business, politics, wealth, love, morals, and religion.

In putting these questions first of all to myself I found them very humbling. You may have the same experience. Never mind. Humility, the discovery of the greatness of what we are not, and the littleness of what we are, never hurt any man.

Written primarily for Yale Freshmen, I have kept throughout the direct question and the personal pronoun, “You.” For we are all Freshmen in the great university of life: and the direct personal question brings out most clearly what boys we still are, and what men we are here in the world to become. Christianity Theology
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