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Charles Beard

(Austin)

1874 – 1948 CE

Pioneering progressive historian

Historian, professor, and progressive political pioneer; Beard questioned the philosophical motivations of the U.S. founding fathers and described their more influential economic motivations. This view became both highly influential and strongly criticized. He supported US involvement in World War I but opposed it during and after World War II criticizing FDR (although he supported the New Deal) for lying to the American people and tricking them into supporting the war. He thought of the Constitution as a "counter-revolution" established by the rich to prevent an excess of democracy. This became the accepted historical interpretation until it lost favor of the status quo about 1950 but remained influential to less status quo conforming historians.

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“[The Civil War was really a] social cataclysm in which the capitalists, laborers, and farmers of the North and West drove from power in the national government, the planting aristocracy of the South.”

Themes: Agriculture

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“A man is a failure who goes through life earning nothing but money.”

Themes: Failure Money

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“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.”

Themes: Power

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“The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty.”

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“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”

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“The supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.”

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“The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.”

Themes: Paradox

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“Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery... science in all its branches - physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology - is the servant and upholder of this system.”

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