“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.”
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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 humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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.
Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.