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We must seek some widespread change in social conditions, for man's essential nature has changed but little, and the change must, therefore, be of environment.
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gutenberg.orgJames Beck: “We must seek some widespread change in social conditions, for man's essential nature has changed but little, and the…”
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Beck suggests that changes in social conditions, rather than human nature, are responsible for societal issues.
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Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
Under the American Constitution, they are part of the fundamental law, and, as such, enforceable by judges sworn to defend the integrity of the individual as fully as the integrity of the State.
That vision still remains as an ideal with the American people and still leads them to ever-higher achievements, for in all the mad changes of a frenzied hour, they have not yet lost faith in or love for the Constitution of the Fathers!
If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.
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