Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

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

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

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

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