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Page 47
... believe in a future worth the effort they lack the driving - power to make . That description ( as perhaps you have guessed ) was designed to leave you in doubt whether I was speaking of the history of Athens , from the struggle with ...
... believe in a future worth the effort they lack the driving - power to make . That description ( as perhaps you have guessed ) was designed to leave you in doubt whether I was speaking of the history of Athens , from the struggle with ...
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... believe ( as the ancients believed ) that human affairs move in cycles and that history repeats itself . But the men ... believe in democracy you must believe in the essential goodness of common humanity , and it is hard to keep that ...
... believe ( as the ancients believed ) that human affairs move in cycles and that history repeats itself . But the men ... believe in democracy you must believe in the essential goodness of common humanity , and it is hard to keep that ...
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... believe that truth will have the best chance of making its way , if an un- restricted field is left open to free thought and free speech . In its extreme form this Liberal principle has never , I suppose , been adopted by any human ...
... believe that truth will have the best chance of making its way , if an un- restricted field is left open to free thought and free speech . In its extreme form this Liberal principle has never , I suppose , been adopted by any human ...
Contents
The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 31 |
Platos Commonwealth 1935 | 47 |
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