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The New Machiavelli Chapter 2 Part 1
In which a young boy, gifted with finely crafted wooden bricks and lead soldiers, builds vast and intricate empires upon a worn oilcloth floor, enlivened by his father’s understanding companionship and a trove of books that ignite early thoughts of politics and civilisation. Meanwhile, the narrative traces his father’s peculiarly inept yet earnest ventures in science teaching and gardening, set against the backdrop of evolving educational and social institutions in a changing England.
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