The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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... knowledge of science and scientific method . Till then I had been concerned only with art and literature . It was a very limited knowledge , for the demands of the curriculum at that time were small , but at all events it showed me ...
... knowledge of science and scientific method . Till then I had been concerned only with art and literature . It was a very limited knowledge , for the demands of the curriculum at that time were small , but at all events it showed me ...
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He is a fool if he thinks his knowledge is more important than theirs and an oaf if he cannot comfortably meet them on an equal footing . Matthew Arnold did a great disservice to culture when he insisted on its opposition to ...
He is a fool if he thinks his knowledge is more important than theirs and an oaf if he cannot comfortably meet them on an equal footing . Matthew Arnold did a great disservice to culture when he insisted on its opposition to ...
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The reading public has enormously increased during the last thirty years and there is a large mass of ignorant people who want knowledge that can be acquired with little labour . They have thought that they were learning something when ...
The reading public has enormously increased during the last thirty years and there is a large mass of ignorant people who want knowledge that can be acquired with little labour . They have thought that they were learning something when ...
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Arno Press, 1977 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 18 May 2018 |
| ISBN | 0405078307, 9780405078309 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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