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... individual that he is not altogether an individual . ' This is brave as well as original thinking , for most left - wing intellectuals would dismiss any historical speculation of this kind as Nietzschean romanticism , or suspect Orwell ...
... individual that he is not altogether an individual . ' This is brave as well as original thinking , for most left - wing intellectuals would dismiss any historical speculation of this kind as Nietzschean romanticism , or suspect Orwell ...
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... . The thing that had killed them was the telegraph . In a narrowing world , more and more governed from Whitehall , there was every year less room for individual initiative . Men like Clive , Nelson , Nicholson , Gordon would find.
... . The thing that had killed them was the telegraph . In a narrowing world , more and more governed from Whitehall , there was every year less room for individual initiative . Men like Clive , Nelson , Nicholson , Gordon would find.
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... individual that he is not altogether an individual . It is only because they are aware of this that men will die on the field of battle . At this moment it is not so much a question of surrendering life as of surrendering leisure ...
... individual that he is not altogether an individual . It is only because they are aware of this that men will die on the field of battle . At this moment it is not so much a question of surrendering life as of surrendering leisure ...
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