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John Galsworthy’s 1907 novel The Country House

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Class, landed society, individualism, community, hypocrisy, social systems and changing England.

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the higher the individualism the more sterile the life of the community.

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“the higher the individualism the more sterile the life of the community.”

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The narrator presents an abstract tension between extreme individualism and communal vitality within a broader satirical treatment of class and social systems.

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The Country House, represented by Project Gutenberg #2772. The wording belongs to the novel’s narrator and appears amid ironic treatment of Mr. Pendyce’s theory and landed-class assumptions; it is literary social commentary, not a universal sociological law.

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