To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
Irving BabbittAbout author
- Author's profession: Critic
- Nationality: american
- Born: August 2, 1865
- Died: July 15, 1933
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