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Humanum genus

Humanum genus
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Overview

Humanum genus is a papal encyclical promulgated on 20 April 1884 by Pope Leo XIII.

Released in the ascent of the industrial age, Marxism, and the aftermath of the September 20, 1870, Capture of Rome by the Kingdom of Italy military forces from the Papal States, Humanum genus is principally a condemnation of Freemasonry. It states that the late 19th century was a dangerous era for the Roman Catholic Church, largely due to numerous concepts and practices it attributes to Freemasonry, namely naturalism, popular sovereignty, and the separation of church and state.

Some of the strictures found in Humanum genus still remain in force today.

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  1. Reparatur itaque humanum genus atque propriae naturae uitium, quod praeuaricationis primus auctor infuderat, amplecti non destitit. Creuitque contumacia quam dudum diluuii unda puniuerat et qui numerosam annorum seriem permissus fuerat uiuere, in breuitate annorum humana aetas addicta est.

    Boethius, The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy

    Opens on Humanum genus; names Humanum genus.

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  2. 1. De Natura Humana. 2. De Aëribus, Aquis, et Locis. 3. Aphorismi. 4. Prognostica. 5. De Morbis popularibus. 6. De Morbis acutis. 4. De Vulneribus Capitis. 8. De Fracturis. 9. De Articulis. 10. De Officina Medici. 11. Mochlicus. 12.

    Hippocrates, The genuine works of Hippocrates, Vol. 1

    Close in meaning to Humanum genus; the term itself is not named.

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  3. 1. That _Treatise of Human Nature_, which was formerly printed, hath been wholly spent in the consideration of the natural power, and the natural estate of man, namely, of his cognition and passions in the first eleven chapters, and how from thence proceed his actions; in the twelfth, how men know one another’s minds: in the last, in what estate men’s passions set them. In the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth…

    Thomas Hobbes, The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 04

    Close in meaning to Humanum genus; the term itself is not named.

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Place in the tradition

Part of Relativism.

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