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Up to a point , civilization can lift itself up by its boot - tags . However unjustly
society is organized , certain technical advances are bound to benefit the whole
community , because certain kinds of goods are necessarily held in common .
Up to a point , civilization can lift itself up by its boot - tags . However unjustly
society is organized , certain technical advances are bound to benefit the whole
community , because certain kinds of goods are necessarily held in common .
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It is a civilization in which children grow up with an intimate knowledge of
magnetoes and in complete ignorance of the Bible . To that civilization belong the
people who are most at home in and most definitely of the modern world , the ...
It is a civilization in which children grow up with an intimate knowledge of
magnetoes and in complete ignorance of the Bible . To that civilization belong the
people who are most at home in and most definitely of the modern world , the ...
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An English Socialist government will transform the nation from top to bottom , but
it will still bear all over it the unmistakable marks of our own civilization , the
peculiar civilization which I discussed earlier in this book . It will not be doctrinaire
...
An English Socialist government will transform the nation from top to bottom , but
it will still bear all over it the unmistakable marks of our own civilization , the
peculiar civilization which I discussed earlier in this book . It will not be doctrinaire
...
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User Review - the.ken.petersen - LibraryThingIt seems harsh to criticise George Orwell's optimism when he implies that socialism has become inevitable: he was writing in 1941, I thought so in 1980. Sadly, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and ... Read full review
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| 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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