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... social sense was everywhere evident whenever he contem- plated the political condition of man . He insisted that the laws of a nation should be mild and humane , aiming not at punishment for its own sake but at the education of the ...
... social sense was everywhere evident whenever he contem- plated the political condition of man . He insisted that the laws of a nation should be mild and humane , aiming not at punishment for its own sake but at the education of the ...
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... social ties , with the contempt of human life . Govern- ments which derive their institutions from the existence of ... social , economic , and political reforms made necessary by the rapid changes in the social structure of the state ...
... social ties , with the contempt of human life . Govern- ments which derive their institutions from the existence of ... social , economic , and political reforms made necessary by the rapid changes in the social structure of the state ...
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... social institution as China and Japan possess . The human form and the human mind attained to a perfection in Greece which has impressed its image on those faultless productions , whose very fragments are the despair of modern art , and ...
... social institution as China and Japan possess . The human form and the human mind attained to a perfection in Greece which has impressed its image on those faultless productions , whose very fragments are the despair of modern art , and ...
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ESSAYS | 28 |
PROPOSALS FOR AN ASSOCIATION | 169 |
A VINDICATION | 181 |
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