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58:Thomas Babington Macaulay
272:The Philosophic Radicals
178:Science and Whig Manners
204:A History of Histories
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206:(Penguin 2009) p. 368
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243:Decency and Disorder
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219:(London 2007) p. 350
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140:March of Intellect
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46:Radicals
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