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Woodrow Wilson: There are whole worlds of fact waiting to be discovered by inference.

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There are whole worlds of fact waiting to be discovered by inference.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Wilson suggests that many important facts in politics can be uncovered through inference rather than direct observation.

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