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.

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.

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

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

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.

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.