“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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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
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.
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
