Word: canst
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Prussia for a regenerated Germany. But it is nevertheless true that the spirit of the whole work of legislative reform which brought about the reconstruction of Prussia after the battle of Jena would not have been what it was but for the influence of Kant's thought. 'Thou canst, for thou shalt'--these words in which Kant epigramatically summed up his view of life were indeed the fundamental creed of all those noble men who, in the years following the Prussian debacle, tried, as Frederick William III said, to help the state 'to replace by spiritual agencies what...
...Thou canst tell why one's nose stands i' the middle on's face?" 1912 PHOTOGRAPH COMMITTEE...