Mr. Orage, one of the most active and intelligent reformers for the last generation in England, attempted this very thing. He, in his little intellectual review which was supported by so brilliant a group of writers for so many years, published week after week the ingredients of the English patent medicines and the cost of those ingredients. Not a single one of the newspapers followed suit, or dared publish so much as the fact that Orage was thus acting courageously in his own limited sphere for the public good.
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About Hilaire Belloc
Hilaire Belloc was a 19th-century English english writer. Joseph Hilaire Pierre RenĂ© Belloc was a French-English writer, politician, and historian. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Health — Well-being of mind and body, and the pursuit of vitality