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Unlike most rhetoric schools of the time, which were taught by itinerant sophists, Isocrates defined himself with his treatise Against the Sophists.
In Revolt Against the Modern World, he said that he considered himself to be a critic of the " racist worldview " by which he meant the demagogically-minded, simplistic, antisemitic theories of mainstream Nazis and others of his contemporaries.
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Against the background of the Mahdist War, the " coward " young Feversham disgraces himself by quitting the army but redeems himself, feather by feather, with acts of physical courage and wins back the heart of the woman he loves.
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