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... tradition must be examined on its own . We apply general standards of judge- ment , but conditions vary . All he insists upon is that we cannot ever fully escape national traditions , nor should we try ; that indeed the Left would be ...
... tradition must be examined on its own . We apply general standards of judge- ment , but conditions vary . All he insists upon is that we cannot ever fully escape national traditions , nor should we try ; that indeed the Left would be ...
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... tradition , partly Jacobinical , partly old English Puri- tan . Liberty is not just being left alone , it is up and ... traditions , like the ' ridicu- lous horsehair wig ' of the judges and ' the lion and the unicorn on the soldier's ...
... tradition , partly Jacobinical , partly old English Puri- tan . Liberty is not just being left alone , it is up and ... traditions , like the ' ridicu- lous horsehair wig ' of the judges and ' the lion and the unicorn on the soldier's ...
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... tradition of ' English socialism ' which , through William Morris , Robert Blatchford , Edward Carpenter , the early H. G. Wells , R. H. Tawney , G. D. H. Cole , Harold Laski and Aneurin Bevan , has argued that only in a radically more ...
... tradition of ' English socialism ' which , through William Morris , Robert Blatchford , Edward Carpenter , the early H. G. Wells , R. H. Tawney , G. D. H. Cole , Harold Laski and Aneurin Bevan , has argued that only in a radically more ...
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