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The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II

CHAPTER XXIV
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And occasional discontent is relieved by emigration to the Colonies.

If any man becomes weary of his restrictions he may go to Australia and become a gentleman.
The remarkable loyalty of the Colonies has in it something of a servant's devotion to his old master.
Now this trying time of war and the threat and danger of extinction are bringing--have in fact already brought--the conviction that many changes must come.

The first sensible talk about popular education ever heard here is just now beginning.

Many a gentleman has made up his mind to try to do with less than seventeen servants for the rest of his life since he now _has_ to do with less.

Privilege, on which so large a part of life here rests, is already pretty well shot to pieces.


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