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An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races.
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But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
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Born:
May 29, 1874
Died:
June 14, 1936
(aged 62)
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