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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.
Irving Babbitt
Irving Babbitt
Born: Aug 2, 1865
Died: Jul 15, 1933

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