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"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."
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"Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards."
"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."
"If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism."
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"To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy."
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"Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment."
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