The Democratic Spirit: A Collection of American Writings from the Earliest Times to the Present DayBernard Smith A. A. Knopf, 1941 - 927 pages |
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Page xxxi
... political doctrines , hardly one philosophy of government , that did not originate , in some form , elsewhere . So , too , with socialism . But if the notion exists that it is a recent importation , the notion is wholly erro- neous . We ...
... political doctrines , hardly one philosophy of government , that did not originate , in some form , elsewhere . So , too , with socialism . But if the notion exists that it is a recent importation , the notion is wholly erro- neous . We ...
Page 313
... political agitation , " that is the question . - Of the final issue I have no doubt ; but no man can tell what shall come to pass in the meantime . We see that political parties in the State are snapped asunder : whether the national ...
... political agitation , " that is the question . - Of the final issue I have no doubt ; but no man can tell what shall come to pass in the meantime . We see that political parties in the State are snapped asunder : whether the national ...
Page 370
... political and moral en- lightenment , and yet the question of all questions must be tabooed . The Swiss guide enjoins silence in the region of avalanches , lest the mere vibration of the voice should dislodge the ruin clinging by frail ...
... political and moral en- lightenment , and yet the question of all questions must be tabooed . The Swiss guide enjoins silence in the region of avalanches , lest the mere vibration of the voice should dislodge the ruin clinging by frail ...
Contents
ROGER WILLIAMS 1603?1683 | 5 |
BACONS MAN 1676 | 13 |
JOHN WISE 16521725 | 20 |
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