Mighty Midgets
From 1939 the British Woolworths Group sold "Mighty Midgets", 32-page books that measured 3¾ inches by 2½ inches (10 x 7cm) and were sold at the artificially low price of threepence; the price subsidised by a full page advertisement on the back.
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“The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free.”
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Shrilling a metaphysic cry,
Machines hum, midgets play,
Another corpse is hauled away
Hauled away”
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