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 BabbittThe democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
Irving BabbittThe humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
Irving Babbitt