“We should be a little more disposed to move along. We live in a world that is neither petrified or perfect. The universe is a liquid. It is flowing. Humanitarianism is in the air.”

—  J. Howard Moore

Source: " Humanitarianism in the Schools https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89081128/1909-10-13/ed-1/seq-5/", New Ulm review, 13 Oct. 1909

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