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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

...oseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania St... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...ration is strikingly effective. Calculated to fall in with the bent of the popular mind, so familiar with all forms of forgetfulness, it has also the ... ...is head. As a matter of fact he is courageous. Courage and justice are not popular virtues. The practice of strict justice is shocking to the multitud... ...e the beginning of histori- 76 Notes on Life and Letters cal record—since prehistoric times, for that matter; by the conventional expressions of horr... ... their trace on our minds and our imagination by their splendour, by their culture, by their art, by the ex- ploits of great conquerors. The record of... ...post of their own type of civilisation, which was the only basis of Polish culture. Whatever may be the future of Russia and the fi- nal organisation ...

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......................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898.......................................................................................................................... 53 A HAPPY WANDERER?1910 ..................................................................

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