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

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

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

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

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.

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.

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.