We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

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.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

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 democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.