Carolina QuotesAll that progressives ask or desire is permission — in an era when "development," "evolution," is the scientific word — to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine.
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Section II: “What Is Progress?”, p. 48
- work
- The New Freedom (1913)
- year
- 1913
- locator
- p. 48
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