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