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