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... seems to me to be poverty and hard times . I am not thinking of the abstract academic socialism of Karl Marx , or of our own intelligentsia ; this no longer seems to me to have much practical interest or importance . I have in mind the ...
... seems to me to be poverty and hard times . I am not thinking of the abstract academic socialism of Karl Marx , or of our own intelligentsia ; this no longer seems to me to have much practical interest or importance . I have in mind the ...
Page 188
... seems to me , is incompatible with any sort of dignity . It may be held , by the sorry standards which prevail in certain quarters , to be virtuous , but it is plainly not dignified . Is it a fact that the authors of the New Testament ...
... seems to me , is incompatible with any sort of dignity . It may be held , by the sorry standards which prevail in certain quarters , to be virtuous , but it is plainly not dignified . Is it a fact that the authors of the New Testament ...
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... seems to me that the writers who are loudest in proclaim- ing their veneration of truth are most often simply vociferous admirers of their own pet fallacies . As for me , while given to an equal esteem of truth , I freely confess that I ...
... seems to me that the writers who are loudest in proclaim- ing their veneration of truth are most often simply vociferous admirers of their own pet fallacies . As for me , while given to an equal esteem of truth , I freely confess that I ...
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