It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.
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I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.
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The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.
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