If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

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

Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.

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.

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

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

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