Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

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.

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.

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 humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.