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Page 77
A bombing plane , for instance , is equivalent in price to fifty small motor cars , or
eight thousand pairs of silk stockings , or a million loaves of bread . Clearly you
can ' t have many bombing planes without * lowering the national standard of life
.
A bombing plane , for instance , is equivalent in price to fifty small motor cars , or
eight thousand pairs of silk stockings , or a million loaves of bread . Clearly you
can ' t have many bombing planes without * lowering the national standard of life
.
Page 86
... lack of amusements , prolonged bombing . It cannot but lower the general
standard of living , because the essential act of war is to manufacture armaments
instead of consumable goods . The working class will have to suffer terrible
things .
... lack of amusements , prolonged bombing . It cannot but lower the general
standard of living , because the essential act of war is to manufacture armaments
instead of consumable goods . The working class will have to suffer terrible
things .
Page 91
But it cannot arise when we have once introduced a reasonable degree of social
justice . The lady in the Rolls - Royce car is more damaging to morale than a fleet
of Goering ' s bombing planes . PART THREE : The English Revolution The ...
But it cannot arise when we have once introduced a reasonable degree of social
justice . The lady in the Rolls - Royce car is more damaging to morale than a fleet
of Goering ' s bombing planes . PART THREE : The English Revolution The ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius A Penguin book : Polit. science Volume 6327 of Penguin Books Penguin twentieth-century classics |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Editor | Bernard R. Crick |
| Contributor | Bernard R. Crick |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2010 |
| ISBN | 0140063277, 9780140063271 |
| Length | 123 pages |
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