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The little individualist, recognizing his individual impotence, realizing that he did not possess within himself even the basis of a moral judgement against his big brother, began to change his point of view. He no longer hoped to right all things by his individual efforts. He turned to the law, to the government, to the state.
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The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Walter Weyl
Born:
March 11, 1873
Died:
November 9, 1919
(aged 46)
Bio:
Walter Edward Weyl was a writer and speaker, an intellectual leader of the Progressive movement in the United States. As a strong nationalist, his goal was to remedy the relatively weak American national institutions with a strong state.
Known for:
American World Policies (1917)
Tired radicals, and other papers
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