The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
Irving Babbitt
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- 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.
- 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.
- Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
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