Jacques Barzun Quotes
Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.
Barzun, Jacques. Of Human Freedom. Little, Brown and Company, 1939.
Holland had a much more individualistic culture than did France; this was one of the reasons that Napoleon Bonaparte Bonaparte was frustrated with Holland as the people were not as susceptible to his heroic, glorious image and his demagoguery as were the French.
Jacques Martin Barzun was a French-American historian known for his studies of the history of ideas and cultural history. He wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball, mystery novels, and classical music, and was also known as a philosopher of education. In the book Teacher in America (1945), Barzun influenced the training of schoolteachers in the United States.
