"The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."

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Source : "Literary and Historical Miscellanies". "The Office of the People in Art, Government and Religion", pp. 426-427. Book by George Bancroft, 1855.

George Bancroft

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