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Irving Babbitt

“Equality as it is currently pursued is incompatible with true liberty; for liberty involves an inner working with reference to standards, the right subordination, in other words, of man's ordinary will to a higher will. There is an inevitable clash, in short, between equality and humility.”

Irving Babbitt, On Literature, Culture, and Religion
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