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... societies . They hold meetings , and repeat to one another their own arguments ; they read the papers in which those arguments are echoed , and seldom look at or listen to the other side . Now when two interests draw apart , each ...
... societies . They hold meetings , and repeat to one another their own arguments ; they read the papers in which those arguments are echoed , and seldom look at or listen to the other side . Now when two interests draw apart , each ...
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... society with people of other races , and keep up the fiction , and even the sincere feeling , of equality , so long as you have not to do business with them , or to depend on them in some matter . of vital importance ; but we got to see ...
... society with people of other races , and keep up the fiction , and even the sincere feeling , of equality , so long as you have not to do business with them , or to depend on them in some matter . of vital importance ; but we got to see ...
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... society consists of two or three families , the substitution for one of them of a native family dis- organises everything . If , on the other hand , a European succeeds a native , he most probably finds no proper house or fur- niture ...
... society consists of two or three families , the substitution for one of them of a native family dis- organises everything . If , on the other hand , a European succeeds a native , he most probably finds no proper house or fur- niture ...
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... society . But the prevailing effect of this dream when it is continued too long is a feeling of unrest , of discontent , and , long before it ends , of weariness to end it . Think what it means , you who live quietly at home . We go to ...
... society . But the prevailing effect of this dream when it is continued too long is a feeling of unrest , of discontent , and , long before it ends , of weariness to end it . Think what it means , you who live quietly at home . We go to ...
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... society at all . 66 So We who have left England to live in India see something of this spirit enough to remind us that it still lives in our own country - when we visit home occasionally , and on board ship among the tourists , or globe ...
... society at all . 66 So We who have left England to live in India see something of this spirit enough to remind us that it still lives in our own country - when we visit home occasionally , and on board ship among the tourists , or globe ...
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