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.

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.

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.

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

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

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