Word: babbittism
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There is a great deal more. The chapter on the psychology of Irving Babbitt analyzes the higher and lower will and the other matters so familiar to Babbitt's students. The "rationalistic materialism" of Ernest Seilliere is checked against the Babbitt doctrine, and found essentially sound...
...more new doctrine in a long train--transcendentalism, pragmatism, New Thought, Christian Science--which had suddenly captured in turn various intellectual layers of the popular imagination. The national attention which humanism captured probably grasped little more of it than the fact that it was something earnestly preached by Irving Babbitt which had a great deal to say against Rousseau, and that it was furnishing a great deal of amusement to those who found Mr. Mencken's critical style amusing. Humanism, as Professor Mercier demonstrates but does not say, is a philosophy and an attitude which by its nature must...
...effort is made to prove the continuity of the New or Babbittian Humanism with that first use of the word, to describe the effort of Erasmus and his contemporaries to place the "literae human-iores" beside the "literae divinae" which claimed a monopoly of medieval erudition. Rabelais, Montaigne and Babbitt are found together, all on the side of the angels: the famous sign over the door of the Abbey of Theleme has mislead those who forget that only the "well born, well instructed, conversing in honest company" were invited. Humanism is not hedonism, which is in fact a potential consequence...
...case for humanism is in the records of human experience. In its very methodology it opposes naturalism; human experience is not the data of consciousness furnished by the egocentric self, but the complete record of the race, i.e., history and literature. Hence the labors of Babbitt, reflected in that mass of reading which made his lectures famous for their references...
Winthrop: Morris, r.e.; Cannan, r.t.; Schwyzer, r.g.; Emerson, Johnson, c.; Sise, l.g.; Dunton, l.t.; Babbitt, l.e.; Cranston, q.b.; Haring, Hindle, l.h.b.; Bottomley, r.h.b.; Taft...