The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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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.
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
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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.
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