As far as it can do so, it dehumanizes man, and treats him as a thing without a soul.
"Three Prize Essays on American Slavery"
R. B. Thurston A.C. Baldwin Timothy Williston
Now the Bishop Butler type of mind-the visualizing, idealizing, analogy-loving, literary, and philosophical mind-is shared by a good many people; it is shared by or is characteristic of all the great poets, artists, seers, idealists of the world; it is the humanistic type that sees man everywhere reflected in nature; and is radically different from the strictly scientific type which dehumanizes nature and reduces it to impersonal laws and forces, which distrusts analogy and sentiment and poetry, and clings to a rigid logical method.
"The Breath of Life"
John Burroughs