Vulgar words in The Unity of Civilization (Page 1)
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That is the tragedy of primitive culture: for the brains are there and the eyes; only they have never seen anything straight, because in the world they were bred up in there was nothing left straight to be seen.
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As early as the time of Henry III the barons proclaimed with one voice that they would not have the laws of England altered in favour of a rule--the legitimation of bastards by the subsequent marriage of their parents--which in one form or another has been adopted in Western Christendom, and even in the neighbouring kingdom of Scotland.