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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

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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.

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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: August 2nd, 1865

Died: July 15th, 1933

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