"There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself."
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The Task of Social Hygiene, ch. 10
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Havelock Ellis
1859 β 1939
Havelock Ellis (February 2, 1859 β July 8, 1939) was a British doctor, sexual psychologist and social reformer.
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