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After the First World War ' prophecy ' reached its climax , and many of the
novelists and poets were using fiction and verse merely as forms in which to
express their ideas . But the overlapping can never be complete ; for no matter
how far the ...
After the First World War ' prophecy ' reached its climax , and many of the
novelists and poets were using fiction and verse merely as forms in which to
express their ideas . But the overlapping can never be complete ; for no matter
how far the ...
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Ideas , especially social ideas , have almost always come to us from the ferment
of mental activity so typical a feature of close - packed human communities , as in
urban areas , and we have hitherto only accepted them when we have been ...
Ideas , especially social ideas , have almost always come to us from the ferment
of mental activity so typical a feature of close - packed human communities , as in
urban areas , and we have hitherto only accepted them when we have been ...
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The critical chapters in Professor Johnson's book contain his most fertile ideas
and inspired writing . As a biographer he stands in the background ,
subordinating his ideas and adapting his style to the narrative of the facts , but as
a critic he is ...
The critical chapters in Professor Johnson's book contain his most fertile ideas
and inspired writing . As a biographer he stands in the background ,
subordinating his ideas and adapting his style to the narrative of the facts , but as
a critic he is ...
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