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Yes, there is something distinctive and recognizable in English 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 ...
Yes, there is something distinctive and recognizable in English 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 ...
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Up to a point, 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.
Up to a point, 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.
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It is a rather restless, cultureless life, centring round tinned food, Picture Post, the
radio and the internal combustion engine. It is a civilization in which children
grow up with an intimate knowledge of magnetoes and in complete ignorance of
the ...
It is a rather restless, cultureless life, centring round tinned food, Picture Post, the
radio and the internal combustion engine. It is a civilization in which children
grow up with an intimate knowledge of magnetoes and in complete ignorance of
the ...
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