The Common ProblemConstable, 1969 - 307 pages |
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Page 66
... reforms were duly put in train , but in an inevitably emasculated form . Shortage of resources , combined with an unwillingness to appear to dishonour the universal promise by concentrating on priorities and postponing even the pretence ...
... reforms were duly put in train , but in an inevitably emasculated form . Shortage of resources , combined with an unwillingness to appear to dishonour the universal promise by concentrating on priorities and postponing even the pretence ...
Page 158
... reform ' of the present educational system . First , to do away with selection altogether ; second , to get rid of ... reforms would , by them- selves , abolish inequalities of opportunity , although most of them must know that they ...
... reform ' of the present educational system . First , to do away with selection altogether ; second , to get rid of ... reforms would , by them- selves , abolish inequalities of opportunity , although most of them must know that they ...
Page 247
... reform of Parliamentary or political institutions to ' restore ' to the private Member the ' power ' he is deemed to have lost . That kind of effect does not , in any case , commonly result from that kind of deliberate institutional ...
... reform of Parliamentary or political institutions to ' restore ' to the private Member the ' power ' he is deemed to have lost . That kind of effect does not , in any case , commonly result from that kind of deliberate institutional ...
Contents
Illusion and Disillusion | 1 |
The Apotheosis of Society | 20 |
The Sterility of the General Will | 47 |
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