the brights (NY times op-ed)

[Joanne M. Despres]

Here's the backing for our 1933 dating of "secular humanism":

We have now to exhibit, in contrast with . . . Catholic humanism,
the aims and progress of that liberalism or secular humanism
which they so pertinaciously opposed.

Pp. 125-125
William G. Peck
The Social Implications of the  Oxford Movement
Charles Scribner, 1933

Joanne Despres
Merriam-Webster