Irving Babbitt American Critic Quotations

A gross and palpable error of the era that is just closing has been the confusion of mechanical and material progress with moral progress.

One should, therefore, in the interests of democracy itself seek to substitute the doctrine of the right man for the doctrine of the rights of man.

One of our federal judges said, not long ago, that what the American people need is ten per cent of thought and ninety per cent of action.

This comparative indifference to clearness and consistency of thought is visible even in that chief object of our national concern, education.

The humanities need to be defended to-day against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.