Carolina QuotesChristian philosophers have found no difficulty in justifying imperialism, war, the capitalist system, the use of torture, the censorship of the press and ecclesiastical tyrannies of every sort, from the tyranny of Rome to the tyrannies of Geneva and New England.
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Ch. 14, p. 315 [2012 reprint]
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- Ends and Means (1937)
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- 1937
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- p. 315
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