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... minds to one another ; they maintain an atmosphere of unreality , and every one always lives in an atmosphere of suppressed ill - feeling . It is the same with nations . The parties concerned would almost always be better for hearing ...
... minds to one another ; they maintain an atmosphere of unreality , and every one always lives in an atmosphere of suppressed ill - feeling . It is the same with nations . The parties concerned would almost always be better for hearing ...
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... mind as the rest of Englishmen . If in such cases they showed a reluct- ance to act as the people wished , they would have the same lesson taught them as on vital and exciting questions of domestic legislation , and the case is not so ...
... mind as the rest of Englishmen . If in such cases they showed a reluct- ance to act as the people wished , they would have the same lesson taught them as on vital and exciting questions of domestic legislation , and the case is not so ...
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... mind and culture as there is has long been enslaved to authority ; the French peasant cares more for standing well with his present préfet than for anything else whatever ; he is far too ignorant to check and watch his Parliament , and ...
... mind and culture as there is has long been enslaved to authority ; the French peasant cares more for standing well with his present préfet than for anything else whatever ; he is far too ignorant to check and watch his Parliament , and ...
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... mind . Travellers even in the Northern States of America , the greatest and best of presidential countries , have noticed that the nation was " not specially addicted to politics ; " that they have not a public opinion 20 THE ENGLISH ...
... mind . Travellers even in the Northern States of America , the greatest and best of presidential countries , have noticed that the nation was " not specially addicted to politics ; " that they have not a public opinion 20 THE ENGLISH ...
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... , sticks irremovable ; you cannot change it in any event . The teaching apparatus which has educated our public mind , which prepares our resolutions , which Good God ! shapes our opinions , does not exist THE CABINET . 21.
... , sticks irremovable ; you cannot change it in any event . The teaching apparatus which has educated our public mind , which prepares our resolutions , which Good God ! shapes our opinions , does not exist THE CABINET . 21.
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