"History may be used to support any conclusion, according to the emphasis of our conscious or unconscious principle of selection."
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Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
(6 August 1862 – 3 August 1932) was a British political scientist and philosopher. He was a fellow at Cambridge from 1887 to 1932 and a lecturer at the from 1911 to 1920.
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