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Friday, June 17, 2022

Noblesse Oblige (1942)

Quote from the May 1942 issue of the Socialist Standard

Arnold Toynbee (“Industrial Revolution,” p. 232) put in a good word for Lord John Manners and his kind “The landowners, like all men possessed of power for a long period, have had noble traditions as to its exercise, and where their own interests were not touched, they tried to use their power for the good of the people.”

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