In "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", by Mark Twain, Jim Smiley is a <em>gambler.</em>
A friend of the narrator tells him to look for Reverend Leonidas W. Smiley and to contact Simon Wheeler for that purpose. Wheeler uses long descriptive sentences to instead of speaking about the Reverend telling the story of Jim Smiley a man that gambled on everything he could, horses, and dogfights. He even teaches a frog to jump to gamble on it.
Humanism was the era when humans were placed in spotlight - before that, the Church propagated that religion and social groups were what mattered, but then suddenly people realized that in fact they are individuals and that is something they should be fighting to preserve. This is one of the ideas that Romantic poets also took and wrote about in their poetry. For them, humans, emotions, nature, etc. were of utmost importance and they didn't really pay much attention to religion or politics. Humanism taught them that individuality is what matters and they highly valued that belief.