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Page 68
... less muscular effort and therefore to leave people with more energy when their day's work is done . Many workers in the light industries are less truly manual labourers than is a doctor or a grocer . In tastes , habits , manners and ...
... less muscular effort and therefore to leave people with more energy when their day's work is done . Many workers in the light industries are less truly manual labourers than is a doctor or a grocer . In tastes , habits , manners and ...
Page 90
... less than fifteen per cent even pay their annual subscriptions . None of these bodies of people , pacifists ... less likely to succeed in England , indeed is far less likely even to be tried . Nevertheless , to many payers of supertax ...
... less than fifteen per cent even pay their annual subscriptions . None of these bodies of people , pacifists ... less likely to succeed in England , indeed is far less likely even to be tried . Nevertheless , to many payers of supertax ...
Page 121
... less as we have known it . But to preserve is always to extend . The choice before us is not so much between victory and defeat as between revolution and apathy . If the thing we are fighting for is altogether destroyed , it will have ...
... less as we have known it . But to preserve is always to extend . The choice before us is not so much between victory and defeat as between revolution and apathy . If the thing we are fighting for is altogether destroyed , it will have ...
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