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sexes are produced in equal numbers the
In other words, the sexes are produced in equal numbers, the proportion of normal grossulariata to lacticolor is 3 : 1, and all of the lacticolor are females; that is to say, the results worked out on our assumptions accord with those actually produced by experiment.
— from Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett

society and particularly in England not towards
The Servile State is a study of the tendency of modern legislation in industrial society and particularly in England not towards Socialism but towards the establishment of two legally separate classes, one a small class in possession of the means of production, the other a much larger class subjected to compulsory labour under the guarantee of a legal sufficiency to maintain themselves.
— from Law and Laughter by D. Macleod (Donald Macleod) Malloch

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