Complex sentence: Wheeler, 1978, p.33 Most of the Republican leadership were from the same generation, many of the best educated in the country and heavily influenced by the French positivist Comte and the socialist Proudhon: both democratic and nationalist.
Split into simpler sentences: Wheeler, 1978, p.33 Most of the Republican leadership were from the same generation. Many were of the best educated in the country and were heavily influenced by the French positivist Comte and the socialist Proudhon, both democratic and nationalist.