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The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I

CHAPTER XI
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And we've got all the bigger job to do because of this violent demonstration of the failure of continental Europe.

It's gone on living on a false basis till its elements got so mixed that it has simply blown itself to pieces.

It is a great convulsion of nature, as an earthquake or a volcano is.

Human life there isn't worth what a yellow dog's life is worth in Moore County.

Don't bother yourself with the continent of Europe any more--except to learn the value of a real democracy and the benefits it can confer precisely in proportion to the extent to which men trust to it.


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