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Irving Babbitt was an American scholar and critic known for his profound insights into literature and culture. His works spanned various fields including literary criticism, moral philosophy, and literary theory.

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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.”

Should May Persons Desire Humanity Causes Progress Mankind Humanitarian Humanist Creeds Humanitarianism Lumps Future Progress

Book:Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities

Source: Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities

“Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.”

May Sometimes Democracy Including Conservative Quests Tempted Irresponsible Paws Melodrama Commercialism

Book:On Literature, Cultures, and Religion

Source: On Literature, Cultures, and Religion

“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.”

May Degrees Highest Humanism Expansion Renaissance Selective

Book:Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities

Source: Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities

About the Author

Born: August 2, 1865
Died: July 15, 1933
Known for: Author
Quotes: 36

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On Literature, Cultures, and ReligionRelated source material

Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanitiesRelated source material

Irving Babbitt, representative writingsRelated source material

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