Chronology Entry
Year
1918
Text
Letter from Irving Babbitt to Stuart P. Sherman. (April 1918).
Babbitt wrote that he was 'trying to recover my respect for human nature at present by immersing myself in the sages of the Far East – for the moment Confucius and Mencius. No one ever had a firmer faith in the final triumph of moral causes than these old boys'.
Babbitt wrote that he was 'trying to recover my respect for human nature at present by immersing myself in the sages of the Far East – for the moment Confucius and Mencius. No one ever had a firmer faith in the final triumph of moral causes than these old boys'.
Mentioned People (1)
Babbitt, Irving
(Dayton, Ohio 1865-1933 Cambridge, Mass.) : Professor of French Literature, Harvard University, Literaturkritiker, Philosoph
Subjects
Philosophy : United States of America
Documents (1)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 1999 |
Aldridge, A. Owen. Irving Babbitt and Lin Yutang. In : Modern age ; vol. 41, no 4 (1999). http://www.firstprinciplesjournal.com/articles.aspx?article= 730&theme=home&page=6&loc=b&type=ctbf. |
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