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Page 27
... largely by the old and silly . But in any calculation about it one has got to take into account its emotional unity , the tendency of nearly all its in- habitants to feel alike and act together in moments of supreme crisis . It is the ...
... largely by the old and silly . But in any calculation about it one has got to take into account its emotional unity , the tendency of nearly all its in- habitants to feel alike and act together in moments of supreme crisis . It is the ...
Page 41
... largely owing to the devoted efforts of the teachers , and the habit of reading has become enormously more widespread . To an increasing extent the rich and the poor read the same books , and they also see the same films and listen to ...
... largely owing to the devoted efforts of the teachers , and the habit of reading has become enormously more widespread . To an increasing extent the rich and the poor read the same books , and they also see the same films and listen to ...
Page 55
... largely by the old — that is , by people utterly unable to grasp what age they are living in or what enemy they are fighting . Nothing was more desolating at the beginning of this war than the way in which the whole of the older ...
... largely by the old — that is , by people utterly unable to grasp what age they are living in or what enemy they are fighting . Nothing was more desolating at the beginning of this war than the way in which the whole of the older ...
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