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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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.
A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its... →
Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to... →
Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
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... →
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... →
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... →