"Mental Deficiency": A Misnomer? *Address given at Annual Meeting of the Guardianship Society, Brighton May 1953
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means "a private person", that is to say, "one not holding public office". I felt quite safe in giving you that definition today as there are so many holders of public office among my hosts that they, at least, can sit back comfortably and congratulate themselves on being by definition outside the scope of the term. Once the Welfare State has made civil servants of us all, of course, there will be no more l* .
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