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

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

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

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.

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

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