The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
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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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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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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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For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
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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.
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
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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 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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