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this to be the proper standard by which society to be jud and in this a imption we are upheld by all social •rv. then to h an extent as any portion of society Jack- in the a linmenl of any of the ai to that extent it falls bel< the | indard of civilization. .Man is d gui*»hed from all otl creatur by the o--c n r>f ell-defined emotional n a t u r e and the power

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their prodi ion, 3 eptation cons! ii ul It is no g\

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