Word: zeitgeist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Wilson makes it evident that he conceives the functions of the effice of president to be something more than of a routine order. The change in his attitude is nor due to fickleness on his part or to ambition to play a larger role in the government. The zeitgeist has forced the role upon him, providing he is found to be morally able to sustain it. Some of the things which Mr. Wilson wrote in 1884 would, if written in 1913, be written differently...