The humanities need to be defended to-day against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.Quote by Irving Babbitt about science, need, day
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.Quote by Walt Whitman about democracy, past, art, magic