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... sense . The irony is that Americans now suffer as much from the victory as from the defeat of their aspira- tions . What is it that has taken root in the world , if it is not the spirit of American activism , the belief that life can be ...
... sense . The irony is that Americans now suffer as much from the victory as from the defeat of their aspira- tions . What is it that has taken root in the world , if it is not the spirit of American activism , the belief that life can be ...
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... sense , and a very small stock of reason or common sense would be needed to implement it . This was , of course , a familiar doctrine . Jefferson may well have been led to it by the writings of Lord Kames . One may wonder , however , if ...
... sense , and a very small stock of reason or common sense would be needed to implement it . This was , of course , a familiar doctrine . Jefferson may well have been led to it by the writings of Lord Kames . One may wonder , however , if ...
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... sense , and not on law learning to guide me ; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life . ” This ingenuous confidence in the sufficiency of common sense may have been justified by Crockett's legal decisions , but he was ...
... sense , and not on law learning to guide me ; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life . ” This ingenuous confidence in the sufficiency of common sense may have been justified by Crockett's legal decisions , but he was ...
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Antiintellectualism in Our Time | 3 |
On the Unpopularity of Intellect | 24 |
The Evangelical Spirit | 55 |
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