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... remember that time and habit are at least as necellary to fix the true character of government , as of other human inftitutions that experience is the furest standard , by which to teft the real tendency of the exifting conftitution ...
... remember that time and habit are at least as necellary to fix the true character of government , as of other human inftitutions that experience is the furest standard , by which to teft the real tendency of the exifting conftitution ...
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They had not been governed ; they had been exploited merely , without thought of the interest or even the ordinary human rights of their inhabitants . The Turkish Empire , moreover , had fallen apart , as the AustroHungarian had .
They had not been governed ; they had been exploited merely , without thought of the interest or even the ordinary human rights of their inhabitants . The Turkish Empire , moreover , had fallen apart , as the AustroHungarian had .
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No human ideal is ever perfectly attained , since humanity itself is not perfect . The wisdom of our forefathers in their conception that progress can only be attained as the sum of the accomplishment of free individuals has been re ...
No human ideal is ever perfectly attained , since humanity itself is not perfect . The wisdom of our forefathers in their conception that progress can only be attained as the sum of the accomplishment of free individuals has been re ...
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| Title | 12 Americans Speak |
| Editor | John Edwin Pomfret |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Huntington Library, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 24 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 183 pages |
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