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It is true that wealth has been greatly increased , and that the average of comfort , leisure and refinement has been ... and the vices and crimes that spring from them , everywhere increase as the village grows to the city , and the ...
It is true that wealth has been greatly increased , and that the average of comfort , leisure and refinement has been ... and the vices and crimes that spring from them , everywhere increase as the village grows to the city , and the ...
Page 81
The fires of the tall chimneys have everywhere been lighted up ; and while we made only 987,559 tons of pig iron in 1860 , in 1880 we made 4,295,414 tons ; and of railroad iron the increase was from 235 ,107 tons to 1,461,837 tons .
The fires of the tall chimneys have everywhere been lighted up ; and while we made only 987,559 tons of pig iron in 1860 , in 1880 we made 4,295,414 tons ; and of railroad iron the increase was from 235 ,107 tons to 1,461,837 tons .
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But spite of the dogma which measures progress by increase in these sentiments , there is no reason that I know of to suppose that the basic fund of these emotions has increased appreciably in thousands and thousands of years .
But spite of the dogma which measures progress by increase in these sentiments , there is no reason that I know of to suppose that the basic fund of these emotions has increased appreciably in thousands and thousands of years .
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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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