Babbitt's Challenge

Babbitt was a serious student of eastern religion and philosophy. He believed that people have both higher and lower potentialities. Their lower potentialities are ated to their own base instincts. But they also have something that he called an inner check or higher will, which he got from am hindoo philosophy. So by broadening this and looking at other traditions as well, seems to me as essential to countering that notion about the great book's tradition.