The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 128Atlantic Monthly Company, 1921 - American essays |
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Page 13
I wanted , not the theories of theorists , or the doc- trines of doctrinaires , but to see what the greatest social experiment the world has ever seen did for the common crowd . And , strangely buoyant , I stepped light- ly out of the ...
I wanted , not the theories of theorists , or the doc- trines of doctrinaires , but to see what the greatest social experiment the world has ever seen did for the common crowd . And , strangely buoyant , I stepped light- ly out of the ...
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School education is social - it is for all ; for life together ; how to even and average life's extremes . The private school for the brilliant mind is pure sophistry , and Simon - pure snobbery . Averaging , of course , is a process ...
School education is social - it is for all ; for life together ; how to even and average life's extremes . The private school for the brilliant mind is pure sophistry , and Simon - pure snobbery . Averaging , of course , is a process ...
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And to help along , there is that immense potential- ity of temporal , social , personal , emo- tional contrast which no other genre really possesses . Antithesis , so far , has not , I imagine , been either generally enough or subtly ...
And to help along , there is that immense potential- ity of temporal , social , personal , emo- tional contrast which no other genre really possesses . Antithesis , so far , has not , I imagine , been either generally enough or subtly ...
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... all the same , not to present ourselves as to- tally lacking in social dignity at the very moment when we are being so haughty about the Monroe Doctrine and Japanese exclusion and the White Man's Burden in general .
... all the same , not to present ourselves as to- tally lacking in social dignity at the very moment when we are being so haughty about the Monroe Doctrine and Japanese exclusion and the White Man's Burden in general .
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There are three dominant labor- unions in the jungle , all social insects , two of them ants , never interfering with each other's field of action , and all supremely illustrative of conditions resulting from absolute equality , free- ...
There are three dominant labor- unions in the jungle , all social insects , two of them ants , never interfering with each other's field of action , and all supremely illustrative of conditions resulting from absolute equality , free- ...
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