Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

by Sarah Bakewell

“I am a humanist,” he said, “which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I’m dead.”

Like most inventions that improve human life, the printing press met with skepticism and resistance.

Mors ubi gaudet succurrere vitae: “Where death delights in helping life.”