The Real Babbitt

Oct 30th 2020 11:19am EDT

Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. In studying the Victorian-to-Modern transition, I have come across this remark about the Victorian “custodians of culture” several times. The following excerpt comes from Roderick Nash’s book The Nervous Generation: American Thought, 1917-1930: “As self-appointed custodians of ideals and fundamental moral principles, pre-1910 American intellectuals believed it […]

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