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Irving Babbitt Quotes: Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
         

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.


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



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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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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.



A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.



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





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