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Page 33
... 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 inhabitants 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 inhabitants to feel alike and act together in moments of supreme crisis . It is the ...
Page 52
... 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 75
... largely an accident of time and place . Nor does it mean the dictatorship of a single class . The people in England who grasp what changes are needed and are capable of carrying them through are not confined to any one class , though it ...
... largely an accident of time and place . Nor does it mean the dictatorship of a single class . The people in England who grasp what changes are needed and are capable of carrying them through are not confined to any one class , though it ...
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