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Woodrow Wilson: “Their methods have, therefore, because of their essential sanity, gone far toward discrediting all others; they have…”

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Their methods have, therefore, because of their essential sanity, gone far toward discrediting all others; they have leavened the whole mass of political literature.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Wilson argues that the sanity of certain methods has helped to discredit less effective approaches in political literature.

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