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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

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Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

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Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: August 2nd, 1865

Died: July 15th, 1933

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