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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.

~Irving Babbitt

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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

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If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: August 2nd, 1865

Died: July 15th, 1933

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