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“ Did these wonderful utterances and most significant statistics , " I asked , “ produce no effect on that age ? ” “ None at all , ” he replied . “ Wisdom cries in the streets , and no man regards her . ' The small voice of Philosophy ...
“ Did these wonderful utterances and most significant statistics , " I asked , “ produce no effect on that age ? ” “ None at all , ” he replied . “ Wisdom cries in the streets , and no man regards her . ' The small voice of Philosophy ...
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I asked . “ Yes . In Europe , however , they have been constrained , by inability to wring more taxes from the impoverished people , to gradually diminish their numbers . There , you know , the real government is now a coterie of ...
I asked . “ Yes . In Europe , however , they have been constrained , by inability to wring more taxes from the impoverished people , to gradually diminish their numbers . There , you know , the real government is now a coterie of ...
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More recent attempts to solve the agricultural problem , while assuming , as readily as even a Populist could have asked , the responsibility of the government in the matter , have progressed beyond the old Populist panacea list panacea ...
More recent attempts to solve the agricultural problem , while assuming , as readily as even a Populist could have asked , the responsibility of the government in the matter , have progressed beyond the old Populist panacea list panacea ...
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Populist Ideology | 7 |
A Cross of Gold | 23 |
Utopian Conceptions | 29 |
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