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• "The human species can, if it wishes, transcend itself — not just sporadically, an individual here in one way, an individual there in another way, but in its entirety, as humanity. We need a name for this new belief. Perhaps transhumanism will serve: man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature. "I believe in transhumanism": once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of Pekin man. It will at last be consciously fulfilling its real destiny." — Julian Huxley

Usually considered the author of modern Secular Transhumanism.

Huxley wrote Religion without Revelation, detailing his aspiration to secularize religion.

Huxley was friends with Teilhard de Chardin (Christian transhumanist thinker) and developed his ideas in correspondence with Teilhard de Chardin. Huxley wrote the forward to Teilhard de Chardin's posthumous book The Phenomenon of Man, expressing his support for the ideas, though he could not embrace their religious aspects fully.

Transhumanism was the name Huxley ultimately gave to the resultant philosophy.