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

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

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

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

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

Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.