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Irving Babbitt - The humanities need to be defended...
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. (Irving Babbitt)

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

Irving Babbitt

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