Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

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

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.

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

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

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

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