“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.Quote by Irving BabbittTopics: Quotes about Irving BabbittShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.#Irving Babbitt
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even...#Irving Babbitt
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be...#Irving Babbitt
Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is...#Irving Babbitt
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of...#Irving Babbitt
