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The common heritage handed down to the peoples of our Continent by their forbears included the tradition of their ideal solidarity . Of yore Europe had been unified as a congregation , the compacting principle in mediæval times being ...
The common heritage handed down to the peoples of our Continent by their forbears included the tradition of their ideal solidarity . Of yore Europe had been unified as a congregation , the compacting principle in mediæval times being ...
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... but also a continuous and conscious psychic discipline . Even a common language , one of the first requirements of civilised life , can only be produced by ages of co - operative effort - common thinking as well as common action .
... but also a continuous and conscious psychic discipline . Even a common language , one of the first requirements of civilised life , can only be produced by ages of co - operative effort - common thinking as well as common action .
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It is easy for us to understand a few exceptional men , philosophers and mystics , adopting this attitude to life , but it is harder to realise how it could become the common possession of a wbole society or civilisation .
It is easy for us to understand a few exceptional men , philosophers and mystics , adopting this attitude to life , but it is harder to realise how it could become the common possession of a wbole society or civilisation .
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 244 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1925 |
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