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The social ideal had hardly begun to sprout; and nourishment for its feeble and languishing seed was sucked by its overgrown rival.
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Albert Beveridge
Republican · Indiana

Editor's note · Context

Beveridge discusses the struggle of social ideals against the dominance of individualism.

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