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.
-- Irving Babbitt
   
Irving Babbitt   Name:
Irving Babbitt
Type:
Critic
Nationality:
American
Birth:
August 2, 1865
Death:
July 15, 1933
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