Contemporary Forum: American Speeches on Twentieth-century IssuesCompanion volume to "American forum - speeches on historic issues, 1788-1900". American speeches on twentieth-century issues. |
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That is what modern men would have expected the first Christian missionaries to say , but as a matter of historical fact they said nothing of the kind . They produced a new type of life not by exhortation , not by the contagion of ...
That is what modern men would have expected the first Christian missionaries to say , but as a matter of historical fact they said nothing of the kind . They produced a new type of life not by exhortation , not by the contagion of ...
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As we approach the all - important November elections , all Americans must keep in mind the facts as they are , not as we wish them to be - even though those facts are raw , harsh and disturbing . Fact No. 1.
As we approach the all - important November elections , all Americans must keep in mind the facts as they are , not as we wish them to be - even though those facts are raw , harsh and disturbing . Fact No. 1.
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To the rational observer , there is no mystery in the fact that the group averages of people who have had several generations of deficient and some- times nonexistent education are poorer than those of their more favored fellow citizens ...
To the rational observer , there is no mystery in the fact that the group averages of people who have had several generations of deficient and some- times nonexistent education are poorer than those of their more favored fellow citizens ...
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Contents
THE PROGRESSIVE ERA | 3 |
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS DEBATE | 51 |
MODERNISM VS FUNDAMENTALISM IN RELIGION | 87 |
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| Title | Contemporary Forum: American Speeches on Twentieth-century Issues |
| Author | Ernest J. Wrage |
| Editors | Ernest J. Wrage, Barnet Baskerville |
| Publisher | Harper, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 376 pages |
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