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Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.
Morris Raphael Cohen
Born: July 25, 1880
Died: January 28, 1947 (aged 66)
Bio: Morris Raphael Cohen was an American philosopher, lawyer, and legal scholar who united pragmatism with logical positivism and linguistic analysis. He was father to Felix S. Cohen and Leonora Cohen Rosenfield.
Known for:
- An Introduction to Logic
- Law and the Social Order (1933)
- A Preface to Logic (1944)
- American Thought: A Critical Sketch