Library of Congress Classification:Class J -- Political Science

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    “To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.”
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    “Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.”
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    “Any officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer for a seat in Congress ought to be scalped.”
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    “He is unable to take a fact out of its merely political relations, and behold it as it lies absolutely to be disposed of by the intellect,—what, for instance, it behooves a man to do here in America to-day with regard to slavery.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other—only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.”
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