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Page xvii
... past and towards the future . It is our duty to take advantage of every available source of information , to set in full light every action which was really great and noble , and yet to look towards the future for greater and nobler ...
... past and towards the future . It is our duty to take advantage of every available source of information , to set in full light every action which was really great and noble , and yet to look towards the future for greater and nobler ...
Page xviii
... past as fully as we can , because the race is more important than the individual . If the individual were more important , our yesterdays would be like corpses and the past would really be a thing of the past . It would be better then ...
... past as fully as we can , because the race is more important than the individual . If the individual were more important , our yesterdays would be like corpses and the past would really be a thing of the past . It would be better then ...
Page xix
... past , there is no future , simply an everlasting present . We all live in the present , but the present of the uneducated is narrow and mean , while that of a true humanist is catholic and generous . If the past were not part of your ...
... past , there is no future , simply an everlasting present . We all live in the present , but the present of the uneducated is narrow and mean , while that of a true humanist is catholic and generous . If the past were not part of your ...
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