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An Aristocratic Old Maid

As a moral ambition contentment is dead. It is now synony- mous with " goodness " only in a baby. It is not easy to say id what date the virtue was first missed from the moral......

The History Of The Russian Revolution

THE Russian revolution had the quality of falsifying all the best predictions. It was a revolution made—or at any rate stage-managed—by Marxists. Marx had proved conclusively......