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Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.

Jacques Maritain

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Jacques Maritain
Age: 90 †
Born: 1882
Born: November 18
Died: 1973
Died: April 28
Diplomat
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Writer
Paris
France
Western
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Religious
Without
Incomprehensible
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Transcendent
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