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... merely a stupid old man doing his best according to his very dim lights . It is difficult otherwise to explain the contradictions of his policy , his failure to grasp any of the courses that were open to him . Like the mass of the ...
... merely a stupid old man doing his best according to his very dim lights . It is difficult otherwise to explain the contradictions of his policy , his failure to grasp any of the courses that were open to him . Like the mass of the ...
Page 40
... merely from a liberal , negative standpoint , the British ruling class had their points . They were preferable to the truly modern men , the Nazis and Fascists . But it had long been obvious that they would be helpless against any ...
... merely from a liberal , negative standpoint , the British ruling class had their points . They were preferable to the truly modern men , the Nazis and Fascists . But it had long been obvious that they would be helpless against any ...
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... behind us . Nations do not escape from their past merely by making a revolution . An English Socialist govern- ment will transform the nation from top to bottom , but it will still bear all over it III THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION.
... behind us . Nations do not escape from their past merely by making a revolution . An English Socialist govern- ment will transform the nation from top to bottom , but it will still bear all over it III THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION.
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