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It is a mistake to suppose that he could ever have been intended for the popular personification of evil . Implacable hate , patient cunning , and a sleepless refinement of device to inflict the extremest anguish on an enemy , these ...
It is a mistake to suppose that he could ever have been intended for the popular personification of evil . Implacable hate , patient cunning , and a sleepless refinement of device to inflict the extremest anguish on an enemy , these ...
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Certainly progress was possible ; ' the sum both of moral and physical evil may be greatly diminished by good laws , good institutions , and good governments ' . But progress was far from inevitable . Nor would the millenium be brought ...
Certainly progress was possible ; ' the sum both of moral and physical evil may be greatly diminished by good laws , good institutions , and good governments ' . But progress was far from inevitable . Nor would the millenium be brought ...
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Indeed the supremacy of public opinion is the worst evil with which , in the present state of the world , civilized society is threatened ' . ' The science of politics ' , Southey declared , ' has been erected by shallow sophists upon ...
Indeed the supremacy of public opinion is the worst evil with which , in the present state of the world , civilized society is threatened ' . ' The science of politics ' , Southey declared , ' has been erected by shallow sophists upon ...
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Contents
Acknowledgements | 6 |
List of Illustrations | 7 |
The Age of Romanticism | 9 |
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