Humanization: REASON – FREEDOM – DYNAMISM – DIALOGUE by Leonard Swidler, Ph.D. 1. Slow Steps at First How did we humans become human? Everything is somehow a development of what preceded it. However, there are also times and situations where it is possible to perceive that not just another step in a seemingly endless series of steps has been taken—that a breakthrough has happened! We see this on the physical level, for example, when gradual step by step changes occur in potentially radioactive material—until at a “critical mass” is reached and a “chain reaction” is ...