According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
Irving BabbittWe may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
Irving BabbittIf a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
Irving BabbittThe industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
Irving Babbitt