The making of a bigot
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A circle of friends and acquaintances moves through university, parish, country-house and city settings, where casual conversation, social rivalries and institutional rituals produce subtle shifts in belief and allegiance. Episodes in Cambridge, parish life, club rooms and country outings show how small vanities, intellectual posturing and communal pressures harden into prejudice and reshape private relationships and public behavior. Through wry observation of manners and a sequence of personal reckonings, including a late conversion, the narrative traces how conviction and intolerance are often formed by habit, fear, and the human need to belong.
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