It suddenly struck me that if the EU's Brexit negotiators have need of a motivating anthem they could do worse than this weird franglais version of an original penned by an anglophone Nobel laureate. Listen out for the broken milk bottle (a pint of course) round about 1:57.
Enlightenment ideas and the belief in progress leading up to the Industrial
Revolution
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Using textual analysis of 173,031 works printed in England between 1500 and
1900, we test whether British culture evolved to manifest a heightened
belief...
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