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Page 66
... West is West , and never the twain shall meet . " Now that impression is false , and as it is likely to do considerable mischief in both East and West , it is worthwhile to disclose the error as fully as possible . However divided it ...
... West is West , and never the twain shall meet . " Now that impression is false , and as it is likely to do considerable mischief in both East and West , it is worthwhile to disclose the error as fully as possible . However divided it ...
Page 98
... West and it has remained there until our own days ; by a strange irony of fate it may even pass some day beyond the western ocean which was then supposed to be an insuperable barrier . Moreover because of the decadence and fall of ...
... West and it has remained there until our own days ; by a strange irony of fate it may even pass some day beyond the western ocean which was then supposed to be an insuperable barrier . Moreover because of the decadence and fall of ...
Page 105
... West seems extreme . How- ever — and this is the burden of my lecture — we must bear in mind two things . The first ... West , but also of the East ; the East was its mother , the West was its father . In the second place I am fully ...
... West seems extreme . How- ever — and this is the burden of my lecture — we must bear in mind two things . The first ... West , but also of the East ; the East was its mother , the West was its father . In the second place I am fully ...
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