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As Brandeis ruefully remarked a decade later , “ the living law ” was still often frozen by the prepossessions of judges ; when “ stubborn facts were confronted with stubborn theory , ” the theory frequently won .
As Brandeis ruefully remarked a decade later , “ the living law ” was still often frozen by the prepossessions of judges ; when “ stubborn facts were confronted with stubborn theory , ” the theory frequently won .
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a devotion to the ideas of Auguste Comte , the French thinker who had given to an American coterie the faith that rigorously scientific living , infused with moral aspiration , would regenerate mankind . Comte's “ Positivism ” was half ...
a devotion to the ideas of Auguste Comte , the French thinker who had given to an American coterie the faith that rigorously scientific living , infused with moral aspiration , would regenerate mankind . Comte's “ Positivism ” was half ...
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The revolt produced scores of superior autobiographies , of which at least the following should be mentioned : Emma Goldman : Living My Life ( 2 vols . , Garden City , 1931 ) ; Orrick Johns : Time of Our Lives ( Stackpole , 1937 ) ...
The revolt produced scores of superior autobiographies , of which at least the following should be mentioned : Emma Goldman : Living My Life ( 2 vols . , Garden City , 1931 ) ; Orrick Johns : Time of Our Lives ( Stackpole , 1937 ) ...
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