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The pendulum had swung too far, as always, and now was swinging back, and the horror of intolerance had been loosed upon the land.
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― Time Is the Simplest Thing
― Time Is the Simplest Thing
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Is it true that man was once perfectly pure and innocent, and that he became degenerate by disobedience? No. The real truth is, and the history of man shows, that he has advanced. Events, like the pendulum of a clock have swung forward and backward, but after all, man, like the hands, has gone steadily on. Man is growing grander. He is not degenerating. Nations and individuals fail and die, and make room for higher forms. The intellectual horizon of the world widens as the centuries pass. Ideals
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― Some Mistakes of Moses
― Some Mistakes of Moses
