This comparative indifference to clearness and consistency of thought is visible even in that chief object of our national concern, education.
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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.Irving Babbitt
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.
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
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John B. Hood
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