The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

• To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
• 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.
• Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
• The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
• 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.
• Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
• Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
• The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
• 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.
• The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.