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Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997, ch. 2.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the Property of its Restoration: Speech in Reply to Senator Douglas." 16 Oct. 1854, Peoria, IL, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech at Peoria, Illinois, October 16, 1854." Lincoln Speeches, edited by Allen C. Guelzo and Richard Beeman. Penguin, 2012.

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Tacitus. Agricola. c. 98.

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Tacitus. "Agricola." Agricola and Germany, translated by Anthony Birley. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Mencius. Mengzi. c. 300 BC, bk. 6.

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Mencius. Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics, 2005, bk. 6.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case." Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1886.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 10.

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Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 1, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 12.

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Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 12.

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Aeschylus. The Eumenides. 458 BC, The Dionysia, Athens, Greece.

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Aeschylus. "The Eumenides." The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides, edited and translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 1984.

Mankind was not evil, just...uninformed.

X-Men

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X-Men. Directed by Bryan Singer, Marvel Enterprises/The Donners' Company/Bad Hat Harry Productions, 2000.

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Voltaire. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Candide: or, All for the Best]. Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1759, ch. 21.

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Voltaire. Candide, edited by Nicholas Cronk. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, ch. 21.

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McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West. Random House, 1985, ch. 17.

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Herodotus. Ἱστορίαι [Histories]. c. 430 BC, bk. 3, sect. 38.

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Herodotus. The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 3, sect. 38.

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Bagehot, Walter. Physics and Politics. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873, ch. 5.

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Bagehot, Walter. Physics and Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2010, ch. 5.

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Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. London: Andrew Millar/Edinburgh: Alexander Kincaid and J. Bell, 1759, pt. 1, sect. 1, ch. 1.

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Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments, edited by Ryan Patrick Hanley. Penguin, 2010, pt. 1, sect. 1, ch. 1.

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Machiavelli, Niccolò. Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio [Discourses on the First Ten of Titus Livy]. Papal Privilege, 1531, bk. 1, ch. 3.

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Machiavelli, Niccolo. Discourses on Livy, translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1, ch. 3.

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Madison, James [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 10: The Same Subject Continued: The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection." Daily Advertiser, 22 Nov. 1787.

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Madison, James. "No. 10: An extensive republic a remedy for mischiefs of faction.--Madison." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Third Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1941, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Third Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, January 20, 1941." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

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Eliot, T. S. “Burnt Norton.” Collected Poems 1909–1935. Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1936, pt. 1.

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Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Harper & Brothers/Methuen Publishing, 1911, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Dover Publications, 2003, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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A Clockwork Orange. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Polaris Productions/Hawk Films, 1971.

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Tennyson, Alfred. "Ulysses." Poems. Vol. 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1842, I. 74.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Ulysses." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 74.