“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 defined as humanitarianism.”

About Irving Babbitt

Literary Critic • American

Irving Babbitt was a prominent American literary critic and academic who was a central figure in the early 20th-century intellectual movement known as New Humanism. As a professor of French literature at Harvard...