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Also, he has declared war against the principle verb.\" So said the \"The Academy\" (a literary review magazine in 1897), but Kennedy's writing broke new ground in bringing slang and nuanced sarcasm to highlight the pretensions of his \"betters.\" His work gives us a rare glimpse into the late-Victorian era when any man of talent could become proclaim himself a Philosopher King.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"No social system or state can be really worth anything where the paramount aim is not to allow the individual to develop to the fullest, both mentally and physically. And this aim has never been the aim of any civilized state. ... The aim of all civilized states has been to keep the masses in subjugation for the benefit of cliques. And this is as true of republics as it is of autocracies. ... The money clique that rules America is more oppressive than is the Grand Ducal clique of Russia. 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