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

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

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

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

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.

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

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.