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.
Irving BabbittFurthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
Irving BabbittSince every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
Irving Babbitt