The Free Mind: Festschrift for Prof. Barry Spurr
In Character and Culture (1940) Irving Babbitt wrote that “practicality pursued mechanically and one-sidedly may become a vice.”1 One might interpret this as a warning…
Irving Babbitt
Quote of the Week: Irving Babbitt, “Character & Culture”
“The ultra-utilitarians are not only as completely lost for art and literature as the Puritans, but their point of view is far more catching. We…
Quote of the Week: Irving Babbitt, “Democracy and Leadership”
“The remedy for such a failure of the man at the top to Curb his desires does not lie, as the agitator would have us…
Quote of the Week: Luke Torrisi, Address at the University of Technology Sydney
“The first thing about the enduring moral order is that […] it’s got to be something that is permanent, it’s got to be something that…
Quote of the Week: Irving Babbitt, “Literature and the American College”
“The humanism of the Renaissance was a protest against the excesses of the ascetic. Now that science aspires to be all in all, somewhat after…
Quote of the Week: Irving Babbitt, “Democracy and Leadership”
“Now the doctrine of enlightened self-interest is not itself superficial. It has been held by profound thinkers like Aristotle and Buddha. But the self that…