Malcolm Bissell
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Bissell, Malcolm H. (20th Century)
Bissell was professor emeritus at the University of Southern in California when he signed Humanist Manifesto II.
In 1952, he was a director of the American Humanist Association. He explained that group's position as to whether Humanists claim absolute certainty:
- For the tragedy of mankind has not been written by the searchers for the final answer, but by those who have found it. No man ever hated his brother for doubting what he himself could still question. No Columbus who knows what lies beyond the horizon ventures forth to find a new world. The fruitless battle of the sects has long since told its bitter and bloody tale. A thousand centuries of fears and forebodings, of priests and prayers and persecutions, have brought us only to the inscrutable stars and the silent mountains. The gods have not spoken; we ourselves must design the good society of which we dream.
Correspondence
Bissell was a book reviewer for The Humanist.
