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- Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
- Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.
- Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
- We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism…
- To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations…
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