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Irving Babbitt on Independence Day

1865–1933 United States

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What seems to me to be driving our whole civilization toward the abyss at present is a one-sided conception of liberty, a conception that is purely centrifugal, that would get rid of all outer control and then evade or deny openly the need of achieving inner control.

English and the Discipline of Ideas (1920)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Irving Babbitt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.