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Modern life is both complex and intense, and the tremendous changes wrought by the extraordinary industrial development of the last half century are felt in every fibre of our social and political being.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt describes the complexities of modern life and the impact of industrial development on society.

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