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| | Jacket 20 - Hugh Sykes Davies - Cambridge Poetry (1955) |
 | | It was made up of rationalism and radicalism, of enlightened optimism about human society, a steady hatred of violence and injustice, a cultivation of all the arts, among which philosophy, ‘moral science’, was not the least. |
 | | Cornford tried to engage me in a controversy over the book — she and her school. |
 | | Cornford’s own theory went to the limit in this direction: ‘There can be no doubt that the Future is with the revolutionary participator and not the “impartial observer”, nor the romantic-Utopian idealist.’ And in practice he also went to the limit, to death at the head of a machine-gun section in Spain. |
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