No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
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History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise statesmen foresee what time is thus bringing, and try to shape institutions and mold men's thoughts and purposes in accordance with the change that is silently coming on. The unwise are those who bring nothing constructive to the process, and who greatly imperil the future of mankind by leaving great questions to be fought out between ignorant change on one hand and ignorant opposition to change on the other.
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