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... patriotism takes different forms in different classes , but it runs like a connecting thread through nearly all of them . Only the Europeanized intelligentsia are really immune to it . As a positive emotion it is stronger in the middle ...
... patriotism takes different forms in different classes , but it runs like a connecting thread through nearly all of them . Only the Europeanized intelligentsia are really immune to it . As a positive emotion it is stronger in the middle ...
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... patriotism of the country they form a sort of island of dissident thought . England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality . In left- wing circles it is always felt that there is ...
... patriotism of the country they form a sort of island of dissident thought . England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality . In left- wing circles it is always felt that there is ...
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... patriotism and physical courage , the persistent effort to chip away English morale and spread a hedonistic , what - do - I - get - out - of - it attitude to life , has done nothing but harm . It would have been harmful even if we had ...
... patriotism and physical courage , the persistent effort to chip away English morale and spread a hedonistic , what - do - I - get - out - of - it attitude to life , has done nothing but harm . It would have been harmful even if we had ...
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