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> [In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-adams-cram/in-revolt-against-this-new-and-very-evil-thing-came-the-republicanism/)

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## More by Ralph Adams Cram

> [With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-adams-cram/with-the-opening-of-the-second-decade-of-the-twentieth-century-it/)

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> [Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-adams-cram/towards-the-end-of-the-eighteenth-century-the-industrial-financial/)

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> [In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-adams-cram/in-revolt-against-this-new-and-very-evil-thing-came-the-republicanism/)

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> [The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-adams-cram/the-great-war-was-a-progressive-revelation-and-disillusionment/)

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> [As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-adams-cram/as-the-power-of-christianity-declined-through-the-centuries-that-have/)

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> [The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-adams-cram/the-pursuit-of-perfection-always-implies-a-definite-aristocracy-which/)

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> [True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-adams-cram/true-as-this-is-it-is-also-true-that-for-one-who-won-through-there/)

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> [These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-adams-cram/these-are-not-free-men-in-any-rational-and-exact-sense-of-the-word/)

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> [But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-adams-cram/but-freedom-liberty-is-an-attribute-of-the-soul-and-it-may-exist-even/)

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> [Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-adams-cram/christianity-democracy-science-education-wealth-and-the-cumulative/)

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> [Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-adams-cram/through-the-wholesale-destruction-of-the-representatives-of-a-class/)

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> [If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-adams-cram/if-we-had-this-back-and-in-full-measure-if-society-were-infused-by-it/)

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