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Calvin Coolidge: “It is not well if the great diversity of modern learning has made the truth so little of a novelty that it lacks all…”

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It is not well if the great diversity of modern learning has made the truth so little of a novelty that it lacks all reverence.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge warns against the loss of reverence for truth in modern learning.

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