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The Promise Of American Life

CHAPTER I
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As children we hear it asserted or implied in the conversation of our elders.

Every new stage of our educational training provides some additional testimony on its behalf.

Newspapers and novelists, orators and playwrights, even if they are little else, are at least loyal preachers of the Truth.

The skeptic is not controverted; he is overlooked.

It constitutes the kind of faith which is the implication, rather than the object, of thought, and consciously or unconsciously it enters largely into our personal lives as a formative influence.


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