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There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."
There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."
Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- Matthew Arnold
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- Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Culture and Anarchy. P. 8.
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