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... literature has a vividness of appeal that classical literature can never have and it is well for a young writer to know what his contemporaries are writing about and how . But there are fashions in literature and it is not easy to tell ...
... literature has a vividness of appeal that classical literature can never have and it is well for a young writer to know what his contemporaries are writing about and how . But there are fashions in literature and it is not easy to tell ...
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... literature of the past , and studious of contemporary literature in other countries , he will see clearly the trend that literature in its evolution is pursu- ing and so be enabled profitably to direct that of his own countrymen . He ...
... literature of the past , and studious of contemporary literature in other countries , he will see clearly the trend that literature in its evolution is pursu- ing and so be enabled profitably to direct that of his own countrymen . He ...
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... literature " ; I am afraid that this is only his civil way of calling them nonsense . The physicists them- selves tell us that physics is making such rapid progress that it is only possible to keep abreast of it by a close study of the ...
... literature " ; I am afraid that this is only his civil way of calling them nonsense . The physicists them- selves tell us that physics is making such rapid progress that it is only possible to keep abreast of it by a close study of the ...
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