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... movement — not for him the summer camps , the communal activities , all the neo- Romantic trappings and mystique of youth . Instead he moved in a circle of close acquaintances consisting mostly of his own class- mates and those of his ...
... movement — not for him the summer camps , the communal activities , all the neo- Romantic trappings and mystique of youth . Instead he moved in a circle of close acquaintances consisting mostly of his own class- mates and those of his ...
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... movement which was to occupy him for a decade . George Lichtheim became the leading historian of socialism of his time . He broke no fresh ground as far as matters of fact were concerned , the field having been well tilled by many ...
... movement which was to occupy him for a decade . George Lichtheim became the leading historian of socialism of his time . He broke no fresh ground as far as matters of fact were concerned , the field having been well tilled by many ...
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... movement with which it was associ- ated failed historically to attain its aims , the intellectual break- through ... movements bearing the label " Marxist , " the Com- munists had failed because they confused socialism with state own ...
... movement with which it was associ- ated failed historically to attain its aims , the intellectual break- through ... movements bearing the label " Marxist , " the Com- munists had failed because they confused socialism with state own ...
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... movement . He used to describe his approach in later years as close to that of the Frankfurt School of " critical theory . " And he did share certain philosophical tenets of the Frankfurt School , including its Hegeli- anism and its ...
... movement . He used to describe his approach in later years as close to that of the Frankfurt School of " critical theory . " And he did share certain philosophical tenets of the Frankfurt School , including its Hegeli- anism and its ...
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Contents
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V | 29 |
VI | 53 |
VII | 69 |
VIII | 83 |
IX | 90 |
X | 96 |
XI | 104 |
XXX | 234 |
XXXI | 247 |
XXXII | 255 |
XXXIII | 257 |
XXXIV | 275 |
XXXVI | 294 |
XXXVII | 300 |
XXXVIII | 309 |
XII | 111 |
XIII | 115 |
XIV | 117 |
XV | 128 |
XVI | 134 |
XVII | 150 |
XVIII | 156 |
XIX | 163 |
XX | 173 |
XXI | 175 |
XXII | 192 |
XXIII | 200 |
XXIV | 206 |
XXV | 213 |
XXVI | 218 |
XXVII | 221 |
XXVIII | 223 |
XXIX | 229 |
XXXIX | 316 |
XL | 330 |
XLI | 335 |
XLII | 337 |
XLIII | 348 |
XLIV | 355 |
XLV | 368 |
XLVI | 394 |
XLVII | 406 |
XLVIII | 411 |
XLIX | 413 |
L | 458 |
LI | 477 |
LII | 483 |
LIII | 486 |
LIV | 490 |
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Page 76 - That the established Government has no more right to call itself the State than the smoke of London has to call itself the weather. That we had rather face a Civil War than such another century of suffering as the present one has been.
Page 7 - No truce or parley mitigated the strife of the armies. The wounded died between the lines: the dead mouldered into the soil. Merchant ships and neutral ships and hospital ships were sunk on the seas and all on board left to their fate, or killed as they swam. Every effort was made to starve whole nations into submission without regard to age or sex.
Page 17 - My dear Winston,' replied the old Victorian statesman, 'the experiences of a long life have convinced me that nothing ever happens.
Page 138 - With some over-simplification, one might thus say that 'classes' are stratified according to their relations to the production and acquisition of goods; whereas 'status groups' are stratified according to the principles of their consumption of goods as represented by special 'styles of life.
Page 107 - Having been an Imperialist, I became during those five minutes a pro-Boer and a Pacifist. Having for years cared only for exactness and analysis, I found myself filled with semimystical feelings about beauty, with an intense interest in children, and with a desire almost as profound as that of the Buddha to find some philosophy which should make human life endurable.
Page 18 - The leading figures of Society were in many cases the leading statesmen in Parliament, and also the leading sportsmen on the Turf. Lord Salisbury was accustomed scrupulously to avoid calling a Cabinet when there was racing at Newmarket, and the House of Commons made a practice of adjourning for the Derby.