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Beard grew up on a prosperous Indiana farm, immersed in the political and ethical certainties of midwestern Republicanism. At Spiceland Academy, a Quaker school not far from his home, he absorbed something of the Friends' vigorous nonconformity. In the midst of his undergraduate career at DePauw University, he spent the summer of 1896 in Chicago, a center of the populist radicalism of the time. There he witnessed the reform efforts of social worker Jane Addams at Hull House. He graduated in 1898 and traveled in Europe for the next four years. In England he was drawn into the circle of the Fabian socialists, who were attempting to build a Labour Party and industrial democracy in Britain. Beard was greatly impressed by John Ruskin's Unto This Last (1862), a collection of essays critical of classical economics. He studied at Oxford until 1902, received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1904, and then...
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