Llewellyn Jones

From Philosopedia

Jones, Llewellyn (1884—1961)

A critic and Harvard professor, Jones wrote Warren Allen Smith regarding humanism:

As the first American “critic” to write about Johan Bojer, and the writer of the introduction to his works by Carl Gad, published when his American vogue was at its height, I have no hesitation in saying that at that time he was certainly a naturalistic humanist. I think it was at the end of The Great Hunger (1916) that the chief character says, when asked why he performed a chivalrous act, “. . . I sowed the corn in my enemy’s field that God might exist.” But this God is a humanly created God, and the same character expressly states that he does not believe in any resurrection, nor in Christ, but simply in human responsibility.

In 1954, Jones was program director of the Humanist Fellowship of Boston, a group affiliated with the American Humanist Association. From 1954 to 1962, he was literary editor of The Humanist.

Jones signed Humanist Manifesto I.

Correspondence

Jones wrote often to the Book Review Editor of The Humanist, of which he was the literary editor.

{FUS; HM1; HNS; WAS, 20 Aug 1956}