Modern Eloquence, Volume 7Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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... humanity makes it special trustee of some part of its wealth for the ultimate benefit of all . The irresistible tendency of the human race is therefore to advancement , for absolute power has never succeeded and can never succeed in ...
... humanity makes it special trustee of some part of its wealth for the ultimate benefit of all . The irresistible tendency of the human race is therefore to advancement , for absolute power has never succeeded and can never succeed in ...
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... HUMAN NATURE [ Address by John Jay Chapman , lawyer and essayist ( born in New York City , March 2 , 1862 ; - ) , delivered before the Hobart Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society , at Hobart College , Geneva , N. Y. , on Commencement ...
... HUMAN NATURE [ Address by John Jay Chapman , lawyer and essayist ( born in New York City , March 2 , 1862 ; - ) , delivered before the Hobart Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society , at Hobart College , Geneva , N. Y. , on Commencement ...
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... human family was a unit - and this truth being as deep as human nature , can be expressed in every philosophy - even in the inverted utilitarianism now in vogue . The problem how to treat insane people and crim- inals has been solved to ...
... human family was a unit - and this truth being as deep as human nature , can be expressed in every philosophy - even in the inverted utilitarianism now in vogue . The problem how to treat insane people and crim- inals has been solved to ...
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