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Brown Corpus
It seems quite obvious that all the really difficult tasks of human beings arise from the fact that man is not one, but many.
Each man, that is, is both one and many.
He is a dreamer of the good society with a plan to put into effect, and he is an individual craftsman with something to make for himself and the people of his time.
He is a parent with a child to nurture, here and now, and he is an educator who worries about the children half way round the world.
He is a utopian with a stake in tomorrow and he is a vulnerable human made captive by the circumstances of today.
He can sacrifice himself for tomorrow and he can sacrifice tomorrow for himself.
He is a Craig's wife who agonizes about tobacco ash on the living room rug and he is a forgetful genius who goes boating with the town baker when dignitaries from the local university have come to call.
He is the stern guardian of the status quo who has raised the utilitarian structures of the age, and he is the revolutionary poet with a gun in his hand who writes a tragic apologetic to posterity for the men he has killed.
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