William Graham Sumner, Volume 1University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1954 - 758 pages |
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... progress of centuries it acquires a set of maxims and principles resembling the habitual rules of a well - principled man . Thus membership in such an ancient society has a powerful though a silent influence on character , to give value ...
... progress of centuries it acquires a set of maxims and principles resembling the habitual rules of a well - principled man . Thus membership in such an ancient society has a powerful though a silent influence on character , to give value ...
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... ' to 1890 ? Spencer's philosophy embodied a theory of progress based on biology and physics . It was general enought to satisfy romantics like Whitman , agnostics like Robert Ingersoll , 1 1 1 1 and theists like John Fiske and 45.
... ' to 1890 ? Spencer's philosophy embodied a theory of progress based on biology and physics . It was general enought to satisfy romantics like Whitman , agnostics like Robert Ingersoll , 1 1 1 1 and theists like John Fiske and 45.
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... Progress and Poverty and stated that a certain paragraph in it contained a fallacy . Toward the close of the hour , he said that we must bring in the next time a written comment on his lecture . I looked up the passage in Henry George ...
... Progress and Poverty and stated that a certain paragraph in it contained a fallacy . Toward the close of the hour , he said that we must bring in the next time a written comment on his lecture . I looked up the passage in Henry George ...
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