A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

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

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

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

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

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