The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual there must be a competing idealism something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.
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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.Charles Cooley
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A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.
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