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

- Irving Babbitt
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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

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.

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

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

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

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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