Mises Daily
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Albert Jay Nock
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[ On Doing the Right Thing , chapter 3, “The Decline of Conversation.”] Speaking as Bishop Pontoppidan did about the owls in Iceland, the most significant thing that I have noticed about conversation in America is that there is so little of it, and as time goes on there seems less and less of it in my hearing. I miss even so much of the free play