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At times I seem to myself to have been in a fantastic dream since I landed on its shores , with the spectacle of so many things before me happening without law and without reason , as things do in sleep ; and then , again , it is as if ...
At times I seem to myself to have been in a fantastic dream since I landed on its shores , with the spectacle of so many things before me happening without law and without reason , as things do in sleep ; and then , again , it is as if ...
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I do not mean to say the American middle class are as a general thing consciously American , but it is valuable that they ... realize even this low ideal , as things are , and that it will be more and more difficult to do so hereafter .
I do not mean to say the American middle class are as a general thing consciously American , but it is valuable that they ... realize even this low ideal , as things are , and that it will be more and more difficult to do so hereafter .
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As he saw it , " The cranks are those who do not accept the existing order of things , and propose to change them . The existing order of things is always accepted by the majority , therefore the cranks are always in the minority .
As he saw it , " The cranks are those who do not accept the existing order of things , and propose to change them . The existing order of things is always accepted by the majority , therefore the cranks are always in the minority .
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Contents
Populist Ideology | 7 |
A Cross of Gold | 23 |
Utopian Conceptions | 29 |
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