Ideas appropriate to a past social order have a strange power of influencing thought and action within a later institutional frame work. (Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden)

Ideas appropriate to a past social order have a strange power of influencing thought and action within a later institutional frame work.

Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden

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