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... civilization can lift itself up by its boot - tags . However unjustly society is organized , certain technical advances are bound to benefit the whole community , because certain kinds of goods are neces- sarily held in common . A ...
... civilization can lift itself up by its boot - tags . However unjustly society is organized , certain technical advances are bound to benefit the whole community , because certain kinds of goods are neces- sarily held in common . A ...
Page 69
... civilization in which chil- dren grow up with an intimate knowledge of magnetoes and in complete ignorance of the Bible . To that civilization belong the people who are most at home in and most definitely of the modern world , the ...
... civilization in which chil- dren grow up with an intimate knowledge of magnetoes and in complete ignorance of the Bible . To that civilization belong the people who are most at home in and most definitely of the modern world , the ...
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... civilization , the peculiar civilization which I discussed earlier in this book . It will not be doctrinaire , nor even logical . It will abolish the House of Lords , but quite probably will not abolish the Monarchy . It will leave ...
... civilization , the peculiar civilization which I discussed earlier in this book . It will not be doctrinaire , nor even logical . It will abolish the House of Lords , but quite probably will not abolish the Monarchy . It will leave ...
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