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The Crimes of England

CHAPTER X
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In time you might come to use whole sentences without revealing the real state of things.
Through neglect of these maxims, my dear Professor, every one of your attacks upon England has gone wide.

In pure fact they have not touched the spot, which the real critics of England know to be a very vulnerable spot.

We have a real critic of England in Mr.Bernard Shaw, whose name you parade but apparently cannot spell; for in the paper to which I have referred he is called Mr.Bernhard Shaw.

Perhaps you think he and Bernhardi are the same man.

But if you quoted Mr.Bernard Shaw's statement instead of misquoting his name, you would find that his criticism of England is exactly the opposite of your own; and naturally, for it is a rational criticism.


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