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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
Approximate author period: c. 1904 AD · modern
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- Alfred North Whitehead
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- Approximate author period: c. 1904 AD · modern
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