The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 146Atlantic Monthly Company, 1930 - American essays |
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Page 627
He was the symbol of an idea , and the pivot of a system , on which the lives and activities of ten distinct and different races from the Alps to the Carpathians and from the Danube to the Mediterranean were built up . What idea ?
He was the symbol of an idea , and the pivot of a system , on which the lives and activities of ten distinct and different races from the Alps to the Carpathians and from the Danube to the Mediterranean were built up . What idea ?
Page 646
The whole universe conspires to promote a good idea and to destroy a bad one . ... If the idea of Prohibition , as we call it , is a good idea , nothing can stop it , and its goodness consists in its kinship with other unstoppable ideas ...
The whole universe conspires to promote a good idea and to destroy a bad one . ... If the idea of Prohibition , as we call it , is a good idea , nothing can stop it , and its goodness consists in its kinship with other unstoppable ideas ...
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It was based throughout upon the positive idea of Government , upon the idea that Government must be carried on by men who think as to what ought to be done , instead of merely doing that which must be done . The idea frightened some of ...
It was based throughout upon the positive idea of Government , upon the idea that Government must be carried on by men who think as to what ought to be done , instead of merely doing that which must be done . The idea frightened some of ...
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