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... least only faintly and intermittently present . Not merely was arbitrary political power , as exercised under kingship and feudal authority , curbed by representative government , but in New England at least there was a healthy ...
... least only faintly and intermittently present . Not merely was arbitrary political power , as exercised under kingship and feudal authority , curbed by representative government , but in New England at least there was a healthy ...
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... least as a possibility , the growing regimentation of life could be accepted as a temporary inconvenience , not necessarily a permanent oppression : the frontiers beckoned to those who preferred to get their living from the land . For ...
... least as a possibility , the growing regimentation of life could be accepted as a temporary inconvenience , not necessarily a permanent oppression : the frontiers beckoned to those who preferred to get their living from the land . For ...
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... least in the United States , and was lapsing into a more primitive form : in more than one industrial town barter and locally issued scrip took the place of money . At that moment , Huxley's Brave New World still seemed too remote to be ...
... least in the United States , and was lapsing into a more primitive form : in more than one industrial town barter and locally issued scrip took the place of money . At that moment , Huxley's Brave New World still seemed too remote to be ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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