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.

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

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.

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.