way-of-living

Updated: May 15, 2025

This complexity was confessed, unwittingly perhaps, in the first humanist creed: 'I believe in one Blood, one Speech, one Cult, one congruous Way of Living. Modern ethnology, indeed, tends to subsume cult under way-of-living, as a peculiarly delicate test of conformity and to regard language, alongside of both cult and way-of-living, as another manifestation of the same human reason; distinguishing therefore two kinds of unity one physical or morphological, as of one animal species in an animal kingdom, the other cultural or psychological, as of the sole incarnate occupant of a realm of mind; and classifying the 'Science of Man' accordingly.

- The Unity of Western Civilization