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

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

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.

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

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

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

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.