It is the business of culture to make us able to consider w… - John Lancaster Spalding

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It is the business of culture to make us able to consider with intelligent interest all real opinions, even those we do not and can not accept.

John Lancaster Spalding

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John Lancaster Spalding (June 2, 1840 – August 25, 1916) was the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908, a notable scholarly writer of the time and, a co-founder of The Catholic University of America.

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It is the business of culture to make us able to consider with intelligent interest all real opinions, even those we do not and can not accept. - John Lancaster Spalding

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