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With them this principle is taught from childhood , and pervades every class of society , while with us it is only recognized by the higher classes , and by them is rarely extended to inferiors or to children . The feeling that demands ...
With them this principle is taught from childhood , and pervades every class of society , while with us it is only recognized by the higher classes , and by them is rarely extended to inferiors or to children . The feeling that demands ...
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More often quoted than any other of his writings is his “ Progress of the Working Classes in the last Half Century , " given as a Presidential Address to the Statistical Society in 1883 , and issued as a pamphlet , price threepence ...
More often quoted than any other of his writings is his “ Progress of the Working Classes in the last Half Century , " given as a Presidential Address to the Statistical Society in 1883 , and issued as a pamphlet , price threepence ...
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A communication to the Statistical Society in 1840 showed that at that time somewhat less than a quarter of the wages went to pay rents ; while a somewhat similar inquiry in 1884 by the Pall Mall Gazette showed that in another part of ...
A communication to the Statistical Society in 1840 showed that at that time somewhat less than a quarter of the wages went to pay rents ; while a somewhat similar inquiry in 1884 by the Pall Mall Gazette showed that in another part of ...
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... greatly modifies character , that no character is so bad that it may not be greatly improved by a really good environment acting upon it from early infancy , and that society has the power of creating such an environment .
... greatly modifies character , that no character is so bad that it may not be greatly improved by a really good environment acting upon it from early infancy , and that society has the power of creating such an environment .
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This glimmer of light made me want to know more , and I obtained some of the cheap elementary books published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge . The first I got were on Mechanics and on Optics , and for some years I ...
This glimmer of light made me want to know more , and I obtained some of the cheap elementary books published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge . The first I got were on Mechanics and on Optics , and for some years I ...
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| Pealkiri | My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köide My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Autor | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Publisher | Dodd, Mead, 1905 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 juuli 2007 |
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