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Page 149
... equality of conditions leads men to entertain a sort of instinctive incredulity of the super- natural and a very lofty and often exaggerated opinion of human understanding . The men who live at a period of social equality are not ...
... equality of conditions leads men to entertain a sort of instinctive incredulity of the super- natural and a very lofty and often exaggerated opinion of human understanding . The men who live at a period of social equality are not ...
Page 150
... equality itself , not in the more or less popular institutions which men living under that condition may give themselves . The intellectual dominion of the greater number would probably be less absolute among a demo- cratic people ...
... equality itself , not in the more or less popular institutions which men living under that condition may give themselves . The intellectual dominion of the greater number would probably be less absolute among a demo- cratic people ...
Page 165
... equality may supply . We have not to seek to make ourselves like our progenitors , but to strive to work out that species of greatness and happiness which is our own . For myself , who now look back from this extreme limit of my task ...
... equality may supply . We have not to seek to make ourselves like our progenitors , but to strive to work out that species of greatness and happiness which is our own . For myself , who now look back from this extreme limit of my task ...
Contents
JAMES BALDWIN from The Fire Next Time | 199 |
RACE AND RACISM | 211 |
DISSENT AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE | 290 |
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