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Irving Babbitt | knowledge

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

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happiness Irving Babbitt

Irving Babbitt | happiness

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

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happiness Irving Babbitt

Irving Babbitt | happiness

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

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Irving Babbitt | future

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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Faith Irving Babbitt

Irving Babbitt | faith

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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Faith Irving Babbitt

Irving Babbitt | faith

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

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Faith Irving Babbitt

Irving Babbitt | faith

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 | failure

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 have perished from their failure to achieve it.

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