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SweetFreedom Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
"who do not come into the new needs of efficiency?
1) Does "the point I am making" mean "the point I am forming"?
2)Does "who do not come into the new needs of efficiency" mean ""who do not have a role in the new needs of efficiency"?
Background info:
Go back another four decades, and the changing standards
become unmistakeable. In a previous book I quoted H. G. Wells's
Utopian New Republic, and I shall do so again because it is such a
shocking illustration of the point I am making.
And how will the New Republic treat the inferior races?
How will it deal with the black? . . . the yellow man? . . .
the Jew? . . . those swarms of black, and brown, and
dirty-white, and yellow people, who do not come into the new
needs of efficiency? Well, the world is a world, and not a
charitable institution, and I take it they will have to go ...
And the ethical system of these men of the New Republic,
2)Does "who do not come into the new needs of efficiency" mean ""who do not have a role in the new needs of efficiency"?
Background info:
Go back another four decades, and the changing standards
become unmistakeable. In a previous book I quoted H. G. Wells's
Utopian New Republic, and I shall do so again because it is such a
shocking illustration of the point I am making.
And how will the New Republic treat the inferior races?
How will it deal with the black? . . . the yellow man? . . .
the Jew? . . . those swarms of black, and brown, and
dirty-white, and yellow people, who do not come into the new
needs of efficiency? Well, the world is a world, and not a
charitable institution, and I take it they will have to go ...
And the ethical system of these men of the New Republic,
Top answer
org/wiki/make_a_point ). This is a set expression. "form a point" is not really a known expression.
- org/wiki/make_a_point ).
- This is a set expression.
- "form a point" is not really a known expression.
- htm
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1) "make a point" = To argue or promote an idea (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/make_a_point). This is a set expression. "form a point" is not really a known expression.
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