Modern Eloquence, Volume 7Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 85
... race is therefore to advancement , for absolute power has never succeeded and can never succeed in suppressing a single truth . An idea once revealed may find its admission into every living breast and live there . Like God , it becomes ...
... race is therefore to advancement , for absolute power has never succeeded and can never succeed in suppressing a single truth . An idea once revealed may find its admission into every living breast and live there . Like God , it becomes ...
Page 192
... race ; and is such a man to be cultivated only for a trade ? Was he not sent into the world for a greater work ? To educate a child perfectly requires profounder thought , greater wisdom , than to govern a state ; and for this plain ...
... race ; and is such a man to be cultivated only for a trade ? Was he not sent into the world for a greater work ? To educate a child perfectly requires profounder thought , greater wisdom , than to govern a state ; and for this plain ...
Page 205
... race . How much remains to be done ! What a vast amount of ignorance , intem- perance , coarseness , sensuality , may still be found in our community ! What a vast amount of mind is palsied and lost ! When we think that every house ...
... race . How much remains to be done ! What a vast amount of ignorance , intem- perance , coarseness , sensuality , may still be found in our community ! What a vast amount of mind is palsied and lost ! When we think that every house ...
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