Independence Day Quotes - Frances Wright

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“Dating, as we justly may, a new era in the history of man from the Fourth of July, 1776, it would be well – that is it would be useful – if on each anniversary we examined the progress made by our species in just knowledge and just practice. Each Fourth of July would then stand as a tidemark in the flood of time by which to ascertain the advance of the human intellect, by which to note the rise