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

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

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.

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.

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

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.

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