The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human … - Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

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Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said; ‘there’s a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral of that is– “The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.

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