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The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose
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“Historians, as Robert Darnton observed in 1980, 'want to penetrate the mental world of ordinary persons as well as philosophers, but they keep running into the vast silence that has swallowed up most of mankind's thinking.”
― Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
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