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    The Altruist in Politics
    The Altruist in Politics
    The Altruist in Politics
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    The Altruist in Politics

    By Benjamin N. (Benjamin Nathan) Cardozo

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Altruist in Politics - Benjamin N. (Benjamin Nathan) Cardozo

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      Title: The Altruist in Politics

      Author: Benjamin Cardozo

      Release Date: August 24, 2008 [EBook #1341]

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      Language: English

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      THE ALTRUIST IN POLITICS

      By Benjamin Cardozo

      The Altruist in Politics was delivered by Cardozo as his commencement oration at Columbia College in 1889. It was never copyrighted. Columbia University, which administers Cardozo's literary estate, has explicitly granted permission to Project Gutenberg to publish it.

      There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them; and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion. The cause of such phenomena is not far to seek. It used to appear to me, writes Count Tolstoi, in a significant passage, "it used to appear to me that the small number of cultivated, rich and idle men, of whom I was one, composed the whole of humanity, and that

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