Irving Babbitt
  • 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.

  • The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

  • The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.