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to utilise the everyday life and routine
The cause of the success of these volumes, or rather the attention attracted by them, lay in their subject- matter: Pilniak was the first novelist to approach the subject of "Soviet Byt ," to attempt to utilise the everyday life and routine of Soviet officialdom, and to paint the new forms Russian life had taken since the Revolution.
— from Tales of the Wilderness by Boris Pilniak

to understand the early laws and religion
The Sanskrit, as now interpreted, reveals to us the meaning of those poems called Vedas, by which we are enabled to understand the early laws and religion of the Hindus.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01: The Old Pagan Civilizations by John Lord

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