Page:Addams - 1902 - Democracy and Social Ethics.djvu/293

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POLITICAL REFORM
 

ings we have in life are due to partial experience, and all life's fretting comes of our limited intelligence; when the last and Great Experience comes, it is, perforce, attended by mercy and forgiveness. Consciously to accept Democracy and its manifold experiences is to anticipate that peace and freedom.

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