humanitarian

is a sentimentalist, one who felt for humanity at large and wanted to make life better for everyone, but treated them as a herd to be cared for. The approach ignored the spiritual dimension of human life and held that all it takes to improve people's lives is an improvement in their material conditions: Make sure that they have good food, shelter, and so on, and they will be happy.

Babbitt made a distinction between the humanitarian and the humanist. The humanitarian was, he said, a sentimentalist, one who felt for humanity at large and wanted to make life better for everyone. The humanitarian also subscribed to a naturalistic dogma, which held that all it takes to improve people's lives is an improvement in their material conditions: make sure that they have good food, shelter, and so on, and they will be happy. Babbitt and More called themselves the New Humanist, and they argued that the humanitarian approach ignored the spiritual dimension of human life, which could not be satisfied by material commodities alone. Thus the utopian schemes of Rousseau's humanitarians were destined to fail, and even to make human life worse.'

A humanitarian is always a hypocrite. George Orwell

is a person who believes the Saviour was human and himself is divine.

A person who believes the Saviour was human and himself is divine

is one who would be sincerely sorry to see his neighbor's children devoured by wolves.

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