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... human beings are stimulated as a rule primarily by the same instincts as the voracity of the sea slug . It is true that among the animals other than man it is hard to find organized aggression of the kind that has been developed by humanity ...
... human beings are stimulated as a rule primarily by the same instincts as the voracity of the sea slug . It is true that among the animals other than man it is hard to find organized aggression of the kind that has been developed by humanity ...
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... human dis- regard of the Negroes ; and the high rate of turnover in overseers , who rarely remain on a plantation ... human beings , whose rights he would have to respect , yet since they are , after all , human beings , he cannot ...
... human dis- regard of the Negroes ; and the high rate of turnover in overseers , who rarely remain on a plantation ... human beings , whose rights he would have to respect , yet since they are , after all , human beings , he cannot ...
Page 408
... human beings which is based on natural differences , and these differ- ences have been ordained by God . It had sometimes happened that the men of the Confederacy had ex- pressed themselves on this subject before the War in a sense that ...
... human beings which is based on natural differences , and these differ- ences have been ordained by God . It had sometimes happened that the men of the Confederacy had ex- pressed themselves on this subject before the War in a sense that ...
Contents
Harriet Beecher Stowe | 3 |
Calvin Stowe Francis Grierson The Battle Hymn | 59 |
Abraham Lincoln | 99 |
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