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First published in 1936, Behind the Spanish Barricades chronicles the early months of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of John Langdon-Davies, a seasoned journalist who was already well acquainted with Spanish and Catalan cultures. Having crossed the border on a second-hand motorbike, he experiences the exuberant atmosphere in Barcelona during its short-lived proletarian revolution. He also witnesses the horrors of war as he visits Toled...

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Excerpt from Militarism in Education: A Contribution to Educational ReconstructionWhat we teach our children is not half so important as how we teach them. The things we learn in school, we in a great measure forget, but the in¿uence of a good educational system remains for ever. - eotvos (first Hungarian Minister of Education, WE like to regard the human intellect as the basis of civilization, and to leave instinct to the beasts, but we canno...

Excerpt from Inside the AtomWhen I was five I used to go and play in a carpenter's shop and watch the carpenter make things. I saw the things out of which he made strong shiny pieces of furniture, wood and paint and putty and glue and nails and screws. I used to think that heaven must be very like this carpenter's shop and God very like this carpenter, who had only one leg, and I could imagine myself being finished OE With paint and glue. It w...

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Excerpt from Inside the Atom When I was five I used to go and play in a carpenter's shop and watch the carpenter make things. I saw the things out of which he made strong shiny pieces of furniture, wood and paint and putty and glue and nails and screws. I used to think that heaven must be very like this carpenter's shop and God very like this carpenter, who had only one leg, and I could imagine myself being finished OE With paint and glue. It...

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Excerpt from Militarism in Education: A Contribution to Educational Reconstruction Among others I have to thank Mr. J. L. Paton, Sir James Yoxall, Mr. C. Arthington Pease, Mrs. Noel Buxton and Mrs. Monica Ewer for information. The German information in Chapter V. I owe to Mr. Booth. I would like to mention here, as well as in the body of the book, Mr. R. E. Roper's valuable work Physical Education in Relation to School Life. Finally, my work ...