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A Preface to Politics

This book serves as a foundational text for understanding the principles and methodologies of political science, examining historical and contemporary political systems, and discussing the role of politics in society. more

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Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann was a prominent American writer and political commentator, born on September 23, 1889, and died on December 14, 1974. He was known for his profound insights into political and social issues and was one of the most influential political analysts in the United States during the 20th century. more

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“The life of a savage is beset by glowering terrors: from birth to death he lives in an animated world; where the sun and the stars, sticks, stones, and rivers are obsessed with his fate. He is busy all the time in a ritual designed to propitiate the abounding jealousies of nature. For his world is magical and capricious, the simplest thing is occult.”

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“The systems of stereotypes may be the core of our personal tradition, the defenses of our position in society. They are an ordered more or less consistent picture of the world, to which our habits, our tastes, our capacities, our comforts and our hopes have adjusted themselves. They may not be a complete picture of the world, but they are a picture of a possible world to which we are adapted. In that world, people and things have their well-known places, and do certain expected things. We feel at home there. We fit in. We are members.”

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