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... 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 police- men carry no revolvers . In no country inhabited ...
... 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 police- men carry no revolvers . In no country inhabited ...
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... 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 ...
... 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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... civilization , the peculiar civilization which I discussed earlier in this book . It will not be doctrinaire , nor even logical . It will abolish the House of Lords , but quite probably will not abolish the Monarchy . It will leave ...
... civilization , the peculiar civilization which I discussed earlier in this book . It will not be doctrinaire , nor even logical . It will abolish the House of Lords , but quite probably will not abolish the Monarchy . It will leave ...
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