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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
- Few
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
- Degree
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Eagerness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
- Nationalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
- Divine
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
- Finally
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- Nov 07, 2020
Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
- Masses
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- Nov 07, 2020
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020