Irving Babbitt's Quote - Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind,

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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind,

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. – Irving Babbitt

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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

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Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself. – Irving Babbitt

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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. – Irving Babbitt

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