The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is undere… - William Ralph Inge

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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

William Ralph Inge

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William Ralph Inge (6 June 1860 – 26 February 1954), popularly referred to simply as Dean Inge, was an English author, Anglican prelate, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral.

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Alternative Names: Very Rev. William Ralph Inge • William Inge • Ralph Inge • W. R. Inge • Dean Inge

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