Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

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

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

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

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.

It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.