Since Every Man Desires Happiness, It Is

The Humanitarian Would, Of Course, Have Us Meddle In Foreign Affairs As Part Of His Program Of World Service.

Commercialism Is Laying Its Great Greasy Paw Upon Everything Including The Irresponsible Quest Of Thrills; So That, Whatever Democracy May Be Theoretically, One Is Sometimes Tempted To Define It Practically As Standardized And Commercialized Melodrama.

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.

The Ultimate Binding Element In The Medieval Order Was Subordination To The Divine Will And Its Earthly Representatives, Notably The Pope.

Very Few Of The Early Italian Humanists Were Really Humane.