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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. Irving Babbitt

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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. Irving Babbitt

Balance Sympathy Selection True Between Just Humanist

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. Irving Babbitt

Knowledge Stress Sympathy Solely Lays Almost Breadth Humanitarian

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. Irving Babbitt

Happiness Needs Walk Path Will Own Humility On The Contrary Tell Indifferent He Self-Control Him His Contrary Interest Resentful Even Actively

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane. Irving Babbitt

Few Humane Were Italian Very Really Early

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

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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. Irving Babbitt

Great Humane Must Leaders Like Also However Revolt Get Convention Romantic Aspiration Rid Who Eagerness Disregarded

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying. Irving Babbitt

Achievement Somewhat Impressive American Less Satisfying

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

Confusion Furthermore Only Inversion Also America Lack Standards Suffers

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. Irving Babbitt

Today Saying Democracy Quality Our Way Say Purely More Only Most Concerned Another Quantity Another Way Continue Expansive Than Us

Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces. James Agate

Pay Price Plays

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. James Agate

Director Theatre Management Fact Conceal Person Cannot Act Engaged Players

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever. James Agate

Me Nothing Never Going Pity Now Ever

Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana. James Wolcott

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Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew. James Wolcott

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In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only intensified by the lusting for an upstart savior. James Wolcott

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In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. James Wolcott

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What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.' James Wolcott

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