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... mantic hero , his old idealization - which was as likely to be set off by an imperialist as a Marxist theme - of the practical Caesarean statesman who makes people stand around . Mussolini had , according to Shaw , 140 Eight Essays.
... mantic hero , his old idealization - which was as likely to be set off by an imperialist as a Marxist theme - of the practical Caesarean statesman who makes people stand around . Mussolini had , according to Shaw , 140 Eight Essays.
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... practical man . This conflict , when it is present in his other writing , has a blurring , a demoralizing effect , as in the passage on Saint Francis et al . which I quoted at the beginning of this essay ; but it is the principle of ...
... practical man . This conflict , when it is present in his other writing , has a blurring , a demoralizing effect , as in the passage on Saint Francis et al . which I quoted at the beginning of this essay ; but it is the principle of ...
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... practical politics , " his insistence that the uncom- promising kind of reformer , who refuses to yield any- thing to expediency , can never put through his re- forms ; that politics is a matter of adapting oneself to all sorts of ...
... practical politics , " his insistence that the uncom- promising kind of reformer , who refuses to yield any- thing to expediency , can never put through his re- forms ; that politics is a matter of adapting oneself to all sorts of ...
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