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

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

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.

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.

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

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.