Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?: American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth CenturyWilliam F. Buckley (Jr.) Half-title: American conservative thought in the twentieth century. |
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... organic pro- cesses precipitated the war . But the verdict of the war produced a consensus that Negroes should be free , which was no less authentic for the fact it was hammered out by force of arms . The problem of Negro slavery was ...
... organic pro- cesses precipitated the war . But the verdict of the war produced a consensus that Negroes should be free , which was no less authentic for the fact it was hammered out by force of arms . The problem of Negro slavery was ...
Page 71
... organic processes . It is worth noting why this evolutionary process , although it moved slowly by the standards of modern civil rights enthusi- asts , succeeded both in generating progress and in keeping the peace . The changes that ...
... organic processes . It is worth noting why this evolutionary process , although it moved slowly by the standards of modern civil rights enthusi- asts , succeeded both in generating progress and in keeping the peace . The changes that ...
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... organic , social . But all these theories , we now see , were biassed by a certain " materialism , " that is to say a more or less one - sided externalism in their attitude to history ; hence their failure to attain a truly vital ...
... organic , social . But all these theories , we now see , were biassed by a certain " materialism , " that is to say a more or less one - sided externalism in their attitude to history ; hence their failure to attain a truly vital ...
Contents
you Ever See a Dream Walking? | xv |
Selected Bibliography | xli |
Part One THE HISTORICAL | 3 |
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