Irving Babbitt | sympathy
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Irving Babbitt
Irving Babbitt | sympathy
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.
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Irving Babbitt | society
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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Irving Babbitt | science
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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Irving Babbitt | romantic
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 the humane aspiration.
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Irving Babbitt | power
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.
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Irving Babbitt | peace
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
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Irving Babbitt | leadership
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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Irving Babbitt | knowledge
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.
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