“Genuine work alone, in whatever field, can give the modern man the peace that the monk once found in religious contemplation.”

— Irving Babbitt

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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...

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