A universe is a mask fitted on the face of the unknown Universe. Where there is a society of human beings, however primitive, there we find a universe; and where there is a universe, of whatever kind, there we find a society. Both go together, the one does not exist without the other. A universe [...]

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§ 419 · March 6, 2011 · Cosmology, Gary Gauthier, Political Science · Comments Off · Tags: , ,


Letter From Birmingham Jail April 16, 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: 1] While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross [...]

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§ 351 · March 27, 2010 · Political Science · Comments Off · Tags: , ,


Alexis de Toqueville Introductory Chapter Amongst the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of conditions. I readily discovered the prodigious influence which this primary fact exercises on the whole course of society, by giving a certain direction to public [...]

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§ 1 · February 21, 2010 · Alexis de Toqueville, Political Science · Comments Off ·

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