Walter Lippmann Quotes

Magazines Devoted To The Religion Of Success Appear As Makers Of America. They Mean Just About That When They Preach Evolution, Progress, Prosperity, Being Constructive, The American Way Of Doing Things. It Is Easy To Laugh, But, In Fact, They Are Using A Very Great Pattern Of Human Endeavor. For One Thing It Adopts An Impersonal Criterion; For Another It Adopts An Earthly Criterion; For A Third It Is Habituating Men To Think Quantitatively. To Be Sure The Idea Confuses Excellence With Size, Happiness With Speed, And Human Nature With Contraption. Yet The Same Motives Are At Work Which Have Ever Actuated Any Moral Code, Or Ever Will. The Desire Fir The Biggest, The Fastest, The Highest, Or If You Are A Maker Of Wristwatches Or Microscopes The Smallest; The Love In Short Of The Superlative And The "peerless," Is In Essence And Possibility A Noble Passion.

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