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Irving Babbitt

American

August 2, 1865

Critic

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

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