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

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.

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.

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

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.