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Irving Babbitt

"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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"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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"The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality."
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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."
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"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."
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