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If in Doubt, Reach for A Story

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I am aware that many of my contemporaries maintain that nations are never their own masters here below, and that they necessarily obey some insurmountable and unintelligent power, arising from anterior events, from their race, or from the soil and climate of their country. Such principles are false and cowardly; such principles can never produce aught but feeble men and pusillanimous nations.

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    Terry Locke

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Locke, T. (2011). If in Doubt, Reach for A Story. In: Ven, PH.v.d., Doecke, B. (eds) Literary Praxis. Pedagogy, Education and Praxis, vol 5. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-586-4_7

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