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The gentleness of the English civilization is perhaps its most marked
characteristic . You notice it the instant you set foot on English soil . It is a land
where the bus conductors are good - tempered and the policemen carry no
revolvers .
The gentleness of the English civilization is perhaps its most marked
characteristic . You notice it the instant you set foot on English soil . It is a land
where the bus conductors are good - tempered and the policemen carry no
revolvers .
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It is a civilization in which children grow up with an intimate knowledge 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 ...
It is a civilization in which children grow up with an intimate knowledge 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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even bottom , but it will still bear all over it the unmistakable marks of our own
civilization , the peculiar civilization which I discussed earlier in this book . It will
not be doctrinaire , nor logical . It will abolish the House of Lords , but quite
probably ...
even bottom , but it will still bear all over it the unmistakable marks of our own
civilization , the peculiar civilization which I discussed earlier in this book . It will
not be doctrinaire , nor logical . It will abolish the House of Lords , but quite
probably ...
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