I do not find a ready word for the doctrine of true equality of rights. Its foes call it nihilism, communism, socialism, and the like. Howells would perhaps call it justice. It is the doctrine of the Declaration of Independence, and of the Sermon on the... Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: 1881-1893 - Page 435 by Rutherford B. Hayes - 1925 Full view -
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