
1) Classical scholars 2) French word used in English 3) Nontheistic type
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The Humanists were a party which, during the Renaissance of the sixteenth century, cultivated literature, especially classical literature. Their influence was decidedly in favour of progress and reform, and in this way they may be considered as heralding and co-operating with the great religious reformers. Erasmus is the great type of the humanist,...
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