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It is odd that the last twenty-five years which have witnessed the greatest progress ever made in physical science—the greatest victories ever achiev… - Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
" "It is odd that the last twenty-five years which have witnessed the greatest progress ever made in physical science—the greatest victories ever achieved by mind over matter—should have produced hardly a volume that will be remembered in 1900.
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About Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a nineteenth century British poet, historian and Whig politician.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1. Baron Macaulay of Rothley
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
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Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed have to wait forever.
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