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Assuredly, the man of to-day, with the rich heritage of countless ages, can do no less.
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Beck challenges contemporary individuals to honor their historical legacy through action.
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In any study of a World Constitution, the example of those who framed the American Constitution can be studied with profit.
For having lived long I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.
To remove those causes of estrangement, to avoid a fateful catastrophe, in other words, to bring about a cordial understanding with America, the first condition must be an understanding of America.
But all three spring from one root; all three are carried out by men of like political ideals; all three are destined to promote the cause of ordered liberty throughout the world.
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