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Synopsis Edited by Dermot Bolger. Letters from the New Island comprises of a number of essays and opinion pieces all published as part of the pamph...

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Synopsis Subtitled : Human Nature and the Reconstitution of the Social Order. Just as the Industrial Revolution brought about momentous changes in ...

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