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Irving Babbitt Quotes

American - Critic | August 2, 1865 - July 15, 1933

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

Great Industrial Revolution Revolution

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

Ethics New Virtue Even Expansive

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

Leader Revolution Destined Finally

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

Service World Us Humanitarian Would

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

Democracy Imperialism Now Going

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

Today Science Need Humanities Once

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

Faith Thinking Care Take Care Will

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

Future Faith Great Progress Sympathy

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

Knowledge Stress Sympathy Almost

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

Balance Sympathy True Just Between

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

Early Italian Few Very Really Were

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 in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

Free Renaissance Drift Degree May

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