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

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

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.

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

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.