Ideas and Diplomacy: Readings in the Intellectual Tradition of American Foreign PolicyNorman A. Graebner |
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... human nature and to arise from the natural course of human affairs . " If the world is perfectible and if liberty and democracy , as the most rational of all governmental ideals , represent humanity's ultimate goals , then why should ...
... human nature and to arise from the natural course of human affairs . " If the world is perfectible and if liberty and democracy , as the most rational of all governmental ideals , represent humanity's ultimate goals , then why should ...
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... human reason . And since it was a fundamental characteristic of human nature to seek pleasure and avoid pain , Jeremy Bentham , the British philosopher , concluded early in the century that the ultimate human objective was the greatest ...
... human reason . And since it was a fundamental characteristic of human nature to seek pleasure and avoid pain , Jeremy Bentham , the British philosopher , concluded early in the century that the ultimate human objective was the greatest ...
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... human free- dom and made the quest of such transcendent benefaction a national habit of mind . Under the repeated ... human strength and human wisdom . To fulfill the promise of its youth , the country had no choice but to recapture the ...
... human free- dom and made the quest of such transcendent benefaction a national habit of mind . Under the repeated ... human strength and human wisdom . To fulfill the promise of its youth , the country had no choice but to recapture the ...
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John Adams at the Court of St Jamess June 1785 | 33 |
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