Irving Babbitt Quotes:
Life: August 2, 1865 - July 15, 1933
Birthday: August 2
Death: July 15
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.
source: Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”
topic: Humanity, Progress, Desire, Humanitarianism, Future Progress
