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The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

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Pessimism is the product of a hostile social state. Its answer is the substitution of a friendly social state. If this can be done it will disappear.

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It is the misfortune of all truly great minds to be wedded to errors as well as to truths.

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An entirely new dispensation has been given to the world. All the materials and forces of nature have been thus placed completely under the control of one of the otherwise least powerful of the creatures inhabiting the earth... Nature has thus been made the servant of man.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
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Lester Frank Ward

Lester Frank Ward
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Born: June 18, 1841
Died: April 18, 1913 (aged 71)
Bio: Lester F. Ward was an American botanist, paleontologist, and sociologist. He served as the first president of the American Sociological Association.
Known for:
  1. Dynamic Sociology (1883)
  2. The Psychic Factors of Civilization (1892)
  3. Outlines of Sociology (1898)
  4. Glimpses of the Cosmos (1913)
  5. Applied Sociology (1906)

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