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... future experience . Belief in a single purpose distracts thought and wastes energy that would help make the world better if it were directed to attainable ends . I have stated a general principle , because philosophy , I take it , is ...
... future experience . Belief in a single purpose distracts thought and wastes energy that would help make the world better if it were directed to attainable ends . I have stated a general principle , because philosophy , I take it , is ...
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... future of millions of years before it — at least , we hope so . The historians of the remote future will , I imagine , see democracy merely as one of the early experiments tried in that age of repeated upheavals - our own - in which ...
... future of millions of years before it — at least , we hope so . The historians of the remote future will , I imagine , see democracy merely as one of the early experiments tried in that age of repeated upheavals - our own - in which ...
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... future , or at least about their dreamy visions of the socialist future . Why do they tell us so little about the socialist and communist ex- periments of the past , in which their theories were really tested ? It is , I think , because ...
... future , or at least about their dreamy visions of the socialist future . Why do they tell us so little about the socialist and communist ex- periments of the past , in which their theories were really tested ? It is , I think , because ...
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