What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move abou — Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move abou — Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move abou — Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move abou — Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move abou — Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
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What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together

— Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
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