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... civilization . It is a culture as individual as that of Spain . It is somehow bound up with solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays , smoky towns and winding roads , green fields and red pillar- boxes . It has a flavour of its own ...
... civilization . It is a culture as individual as that of Spain . It is somehow bound up with solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays , smoky towns and winding roads , green fields and red pillar- boxes . It has a flavour of its own ...
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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 necessarily 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 necessarily held in common . A ...
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... civilization in which children grow up with an intimate know- ledge 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 children grow up with an intimate know- ledge 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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