A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

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.

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

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

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

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.