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Woodrow Wilson: Strangely enough, too, we at the same time accepted the quite incompatible theory that we were related also to the…

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Strangely enough, too, we at the same time accepted the quite incompatible theory that we were related also to the French philosophical radicals.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Wilson notes the contradictory belief that Americans were also aligned with French radical philosophical ideas.

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