American Public Addresses, 1740-1952McGraw-Hill, 1956 - 301 pages |
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... social , and cultural , is studded with the speeches of men who have importantly influenced attitudes and events . A roll call of the names and speeches , for example those of this volume , will at once suggest the intimate association ...
... social , and cultural , is studded with the speeches of men who have importantly influenced attitudes and events . A roll call of the names and speeches , for example those of this volume , will at once suggest the intimate association ...
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... social results . Do the ideas work ? Do they create more than a ripple ? Do the wider currents point to historical vindication of the speaker's in- fluence ? We thus attempt to separate the activity of the speaker , in affecting social ...
... social results . Do the ideas work ? Do they create more than a ripple ? Do the wider currents point to historical vindication of the speaker's in- fluence ? We thus attempt to separate the activity of the speaker , in affecting social ...
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... social experiments . In area after area he has succeeded in getting what he wanted , not by violence , but by overpassing violence and substitut- ing cooperation . That is what social progress consists in . All social progress can be ...
... social experiments . In area after area he has succeeded in getting what he wanted , not by violence , but by overpassing violence and substitut- ing cooperation . That is what social progress consists in . All social progress can be ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
RALPH WALDO EMERSON | 3 |
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry | 15 |
Copyright | |
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