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Liberal Darwinists , recognizing man's kinship with animals , insisted that man's humanity was the ruling distinction . ... Human beings acquired culture , not by biological inheritance , but by living in society .
Liberal Darwinists , recognizing man's kinship with animals , insisted that man's humanity was the ruling distinction . ... Human beings acquired culture , not by biological inheritance , but by living in society .
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In other words , the dispute was one between cosmic determinism and human choice , the difference , as William James put it , between a " block universe " and an open universe . In a fixed universe there is no chance , no novelty ...
In other words , the dispute was one between cosmic determinism and human choice , the difference , as William James put it , between a " block universe " and an open universe . In a fixed universe there is no chance , no novelty ...
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The Department of Labor is the one great department of the government all the activities of which deal in human welfare . We have come to a point of view under the discipline of American opinion and feeling where we demand an industrial ...
The Department of Labor is the one great department of the government all the activities of which deal in human welfare . We have come to a point of view under the discipline of American opinion and feeling where we demand an industrial ...
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Contents
I | 1 |
A message of hope and a promise of action First Inaugural Address | 5 |
The clash of cultures C A Eastman 1915 | 11 |
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| Title | The Making of American Democracy: 1865-1960 Volume 2 of The Making of American Democracy: Readings and Documents, Ray Allen Billington |
| Editor | Ray Allen Billington |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962 |
| ISBN | 0209540710, 9780209540712 |
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