“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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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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 discipline of the military type.
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.