Irving Babbitt

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

— Irving Babbitt

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

— Irving Babbitt

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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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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. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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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. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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

— Irving Babbitt

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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. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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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. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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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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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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