The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
From Irving Babbitt
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
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