If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.