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Page ix
... whole result has been the upgrowth of a problem scarcely less urgent than that of the very rich and the very poor . It must also be remembered that these new charac- teristics are only just beginning to show themselves . They will be ...
... whole result has been the upgrowth of a problem scarcely less urgent than that of the very rich and the very poor . It must also be remembered that these new charac- teristics are only just beginning to show themselves . They will be ...
Page xx
... whole- some education To - day machinery and economic law have destroyed narrow education and substituted vulgarity The new education of the mind ( like the new beauty of external conditions ) must be made artificially ( effect of ...
... whole- some education To - day machinery and economic law have destroyed narrow education and substituted vulgarity The new education of the mind ( like the new beauty of external conditions ) must be made artificially ( effect of ...
Page xxiv
... whole a failure . Fifty years ago men's minds were full of ideals . Some of them seem to have come to nothing . Others have received a strangely disenchanting fulfilment . Cinder - heaps smoulder where there once were beacon - fires ...
... whole a failure . Fifty years ago men's minds were full of ideals . Some of them seem to have come to nothing . Others have received a strangely disenchanting fulfilment . Cinder - heaps smoulder where there once were beacon - fires ...
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... whole of such a town as London with a healthy , energetic population reared amidst the fresh air and quieting influences of the life of the fields . But in the past twenty - five years a force has been operating in the raw material of ...
... whole of such a town as London with a healthy , energetic population reared amidst the fresh air and quieting influences of the life of the fields . But in the past twenty - five years a force has been operating in the raw material of ...
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... Whole populations of great cities , numbers equal to that of vast colonies or empires beyond the sea , could be rent from his realm without producing any appreciable diminution . Yet the world as a whole is still unconscious of his ...
... Whole populations of great cities , numbers equal to that of vast colonies or empires beyond the sea , could be rent from his realm without producing any appreciable diminution . Yet the world as a whole is still unconscious of his ...
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