Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, a volume of original, historic and descriptive writings showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress (1901)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, A. J. Holman & co · leaf 288
and with this triumph of justice the human conscience,throwing aside casuistry and evasion for a time, faced its problems honestlyand asserted its own sovereignty. The consequences of the mighty struggle did not stop here. Once theprinciples of abstract justice established, not only against might… … CZAR ALEXANDER II. OF RUSSIA. a true democracy, there came a tendency to extend its application to mankindat large; and women, who according to their station in life had hithertobeen dealt with theoretically as either useful or ornamental possessions,began to find their place as members of the…
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