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pictures of the world, we can try to see the vista of a longer duration of events, and wherever it is possible to escape from the urgent present, allow this longer time to control our decisions. And yet, even when there is this will to let the future count, we find again and again that we do not know for certain how to act according to the dictates of reason. The number of human problems on which reason is prepared to dictate is small. 5 There is, however, a noble counterfeit in that charity which comes from self-knowledge and an unarguable belief that no one of our gregarious species is alone in his longing for a friendlier world. So many of the grimaces men make at each other go with a flutter of their pulse, that they are not all of them important. And where so much is uncertain, where so many actions have to be carried out on guesses, the demand upon the reserves of mere decency is enormous, and it is necessary to live as if good will would work. We cannot prove in every instance that it will, nor why hatred, intolerance, suspicion, bigotry, secrecy, fear, and lying are the seven deadly sins against public opinion. We can only insist that they have no place in the appeal to reason, that in the longer run they are a poison; and taking our stand upon a view of the world which outlasts our own predicaments, and our own lives, we can cherish a hearty prejudice against them. We can do this all the better if we do not allow frightfulness and fanaticism to impress us so deeply that we throw up our hands peevishly, and lose interest in the longer run of time because we have lost faith in the future of man. There is no ground for this despair, because all the _ifs_ on which, as James said, our destiny hangs, are as pregnant as they ever were. What we have seen of brutality, we have seen, and because it was strange, it was not conclusive. It was only Berlin, Moscow, Versailles in 1914 to 1919, not Armageddon, as we rhetorically said. The more realistically men have faced out the brutality and the hysteria, the more they have earned the right to say that it is not foolish for men to believe, because another great war took place, that intelligence, courage and effort cannot ever contrive a good life for all men. Great as was the horror, it was not universal. There were corrupt, and there were incorruptible. There was muddle and there were miracles. There was huge lying. There were men with the will to uncover it. It is no judgment, but only a mood, when men deny that what some men have been, more men, and ultimately enough men, might be. You can despair of what has never been. You can despair of ever having three heads, though Mr. Shaw has declined to despair even of that. But you cannot despair of the possibilities that could exist <strong>by</strong> virtue of any human
quality which a human being has exhibited. And if amidst all the evils of this decade, you have not seen men and women, known moments that you would like to multiply, the Lord himself cannot help you.
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TO FAYE LIPPMANN Wading River, Long
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CHAPTER I - INTRODUCTION THE WORLD
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Far less should he go to the Antipo
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darkened brains toward him as towar
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Pennsylvania mining town, plunged s
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of American marines on the Dalmatia
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describe. Yet these fictions determ
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[Footnote: _Cf_. Wallas, _Our Socia
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p. 151.] What for a sociologist is
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task of a political science that ha
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eal one was. But a few days later a
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already at the front. There will re
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treaties, or when Mr. Hughes invest
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that a change in the art of shipbui
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iological clan. Membership is intim
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It is no part of our inquiry to att
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ated themselves at more than fiftee
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Chicago business men in 1916 for pr
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It is doubtful whether a supreme ma
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"A native of an unfriendly country.
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9% increase of clang in the second
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difference between Frege and Peano,
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otherwise vague and wavering." But
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_Cf._ also his comment on _Dante's
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painter, for example, or a cultivat
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world, however, during the last few
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have arranged their lives as if the
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happens. If the man is no longer pl
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an ecclesiastical bearing and "conf
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once more the purely technical conc
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overcrowding; they pointed with pri
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will be known by the governors. In
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uildings which rose, and the bank a
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misjudged the facts, imagined the a
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professing the same stock of religi
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of thing is, I believe, less preval
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that it seems less dangerous to fig
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tells me it is three miles and thin
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seasons. If born in winter, we shou
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the main highway for ninety-nine ye
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and assistance "until such time as
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the most troublesome employee or th
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time, and sampling. We must note no
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Morgan or the King become ideas and
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to be easily popular where the mark
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they find, or pay the price of frus
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lives that seem at first glance dul
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sharply separated. He would say tha
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are never exercised again in the wh
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Thus it may be true enough, as Jame
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described in economic materialism w
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_Op. cit._, Vol. II, p. 390.] "ever
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what proportion, by the motives of
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that wizardry which popular leaders
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stability and prosperity. We should
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People differ widely in their susce
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pervaded the whole of western Europ
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All these considerations entered in
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every corner of the earth. No docum
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end of symbols which once provoked
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likely as not, too busy to be consu
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services in a feudal system, to job
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same reaction takes place in many p
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CHAPTER XV LEADERS AND THE RANK AND
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most practiced, and reaches to high
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impinge upon the private habits of
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e indicated by them. Where the inci
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persuasion has become a self-consci
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infallible origin for the new socia
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dignity of all men, were immediatel
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2 To circumvent this conclusion one
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They looked about them. In the city
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consent or community beyond the fro
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without the labor of earning new tr
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They could not consider in their ca
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Jefferson who first taught the Amer
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sense of common interest, have torn
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document has to thank the enterpris
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impose law and order on the localit
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141.] Everyone who shares that hope
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constitute the internal affairs of
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about other people's views of that
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gather together its strength, and f
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absorbed by one interest: self-gove
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