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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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