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Moon7296 Posted 8 years ago
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Too often, original ideas or beliefs have been considered by definition to be a product of the upper classes, and their diffusion among the subordinate classes a mechanical fact of little or no interest.


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Read it as: Too often, original ideas or beliefs have been considered by definition to be a product of the upper classes, and their diffusion among the subordinate classes has been considered to be a mechanical fact of little or no interest.

  • Read it as: Too often, original ideas or beliefs have been considered by definition to be a product of the upper classes, and their diffusion among the subordinate classes has been considered to be a mechanical fact of little or no interest.
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Read it as:

Too often, original ideas or beliefs have been considered by definition to be a product of the upper classes, and their diffusion among the subordinate classes has been considered to be a mechanical fact of little or no interest.

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