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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Jacques Barzun
Born: November 30, 1907
Died: October 25, 2012 (aged 104)
Bio: Jacques Martin Barzun was a French-born American historian. Focusing on ideas and culture, he wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball and classical music, and is best known as a philosopher of education.
Known for:
- The House of Intellect (1959)
- Simple & direct (1969)
- Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941)
- The modern researcher (1957)
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