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We have come to the conclusion…that in the sphere of civil government the duty of investigation and thought, as preliminary to action, might with great advantage be more definitely added.

Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane

It is only a world embodying the principle of relativity, in the form which the doctrine entails, that can be said to exhibit the character of mind, with its exclusion of disconnected fragments and relations.

Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane

Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane

Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane

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Born: July 30, 1856

Died: August 19, 1928 (aged 72)

Bio: Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane was an influential Scottish Liberal and later Labour imperialist politician, lawyer and philosopher.

Known for:

Human Experience - A Study Of Its Structure (1926)
Life of Goethe
Life of Adam Smith (1887)
The Pathway to Reality

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