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PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND CULTURE . A SHORT while ago a friend in an eastern country asked me what part libraries played in the cultural development of Great Britain . He was aware of the extensive facilities provided for the British public ...
PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND CULTURE . A SHORT while ago a friend in an eastern country asked me what part libraries played in the cultural development of Great Britain . He was aware of the extensive facilities provided for the British public ...
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Bookishness is not culture , and we have , all of us , at some time or another met scholars whose culture was greatly inferior to their knowledge . The culture of a country is something very much wider and deeper .
Bookishness is not culture , and we have , all of us , at some time or another met scholars whose culture was greatly inferior to their knowledge . The culture of a country is something very much wider and deeper .
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Eliot thinks that the standards of culture in that hemisphere are lower to - day than they were fifty years ago , and , if he is right , the decline of the influence and inspiration of religion may be a potent cause .
Eliot thinks that the standards of culture in that hemisphere are lower to - day than they were fifty years ago , and , if he is right , the decline of the influence and inspiration of religion may be a potent cause .
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Contents
Ancient and Modern Oratory | 1 |
From Past to Present | 2 |
Indian Foreign Policy and the Defence of the Middle East | 3 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volumes 292-293 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero, George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1954 |
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