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… in the popular mind. Generally speaking, human beings, complacent as ever in their judgments on them selves, seem … is the unit; the individual is the fractional ingredient. The theory of Americanism has not yet been so fully … rare actions of good men. A generous admixture of beauty is also visible in such creations as railway engines, …

… under Louis Philippe, “King of the French,” Anatole France died in 1924 when Raymond Poincare was premier. The man who … he supported militarism. Then came the red scare of the Commune. France, the Communist of a great many years later, … before we meet Jerome Coignard and M. Bergeret. France was also a poet in the Parnassian brotherhood, a worshiper of …

… class and its notions of noblesse oblige . Percy, who died in 1942, was a leading citizen of Greenville, … now they were problems; manners used to be a branch of morals, now they were merely bad; poverty used to be worn with … had been generally acknowledged within the scholarly community but rarely written about, and then only obliquely, …

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