1. By this I mean the secular humanism that has allowed the flowering of civil society in the West.

2. Secular Humanism as the dominant faith of the elite.

3. It is interesting and significant that the American Mullahs consistently identify "secular humanism" as the chief corruption of modern society.

4. Secular Humanism has emerged as the dominant faith of the elite.

5. The problem of wife abuse is not one of feminism, secular humanism or a lack of headship in the home.

6. However, it should not be neglected that its cognitive mode—Separation of Heaven and Man—and secular humanism as well, have brought negative effect to human civilization.

7. Of course, some passages are obscure or anachronistic. But many of the sayings attributed to Confucius breathe a remarkably fresh secular humanism.