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Page 48
... important fact about so many of the English intelligentsia - their severance from the common culture of the country . In intention , at any rate , the English intelligentsia are Europeanized . They take their cookery from Paris and ...
... important fact about so many of the English intelligentsia - their severance from the common culture of the country . In intention , at any rate , the English intelligentsia are Europeanized . They take their cookery from Paris and ...
Page 50
... important developments in England during the past twenty years has been the upward and downward extension of the middle class . It has happened on such a scale as to make the old classification of society into capitalists , proletarians ...
... important developments in England during the past twenty years has been the upward and downward extension of the middle class . It has happened on such a scale as to make the old classification of society into capitalists , proletarians ...
Page 123
... important to realize that now , and to grasp what it entails . With all its sloth , hypocrisy and injustice , the English - speaking civilization is the only large obstacle in Hitler's path . It is a living contradiction of all the ...
... important to realize that now , and to grasp what it entails . With all its sloth , hypocrisy and injustice , the English - speaking civilization is the only large obstacle in Hitler's path . It is a living contradiction of all the ...
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