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fact, already pointed out, of the most complete and unquestioned freedom, both of thought and expres. sion, which the world had yet witnessed ?
We shall probably be ignoring an important factor in the history of the time if we omit to notice that this state of things was due, in great part, to the very casy and simple economic conditions of those days.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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