Quote by: Irving Babbitt

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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  • NameIrving Babbitt
  • DescriptionAmerican academic and literary criticism
  • BornAugust 2, 1865
  • DiedJuly 15, 1933
  • CountryUnited States Of America