"If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past"
"We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey."
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Source: John Hospers (1971). “Libertarianism: a political philosophy for tomorrow”
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