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.

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

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

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

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.