RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY A HISTORY OF MODERN AMERICAN REFORM1956 |
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Page 77
... George wrote , existing social evils resulted from " fixed laws , in- evitable and eternal " ; actually the " laws " were merely a rationalization of greed . Conservative Darwinism was a " buttressed " form of Malthusianism , which ...
... George wrote , existing social evils resulted from " fixed laws , in- evitable and eternal " ; actually the " laws " were merely a rationalization of greed . Conservative Darwinism was a " buttressed " form of Malthusianism , which ...
Page 78
... George described how he himself had been converted from the belief that Negroes were innately inferior . Negro children , George wrote , were fully as bright as white children until they were ten or twelve years old , but then they ...
... George described how he himself had been converted from the belief that Negroes were innately inferior . Negro children , George wrote , were fully as bright as white children until they were ten or twelve years old , but then they ...
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... George's first acts was to hurry off a copy to his father with an exultant note . He had written , George was sure , " a great book , " but he did not say that the work was great as political or economic thinking . George was deeply ...
... George's first acts was to hurry off a copy to his father with an exultant note . He had written , George was sure , " a great book , " but he did not say that the work was great as political or economic thinking . George was deeply ...
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Bejabers Im Worth Me Thousands | 3 |
Thrust from the Top | 9 |
From the Bottom Up | 24 |
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