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... opinions , an instinct for stirring up trouble , the arts of appealing to that
imaginary creature the sensible man and of combining original observations with
sweeping generalization , of seeing enemies everywhere and despising all of
them .
... opinions , an instinct for stirring up trouble , the arts of appealing to that
imaginary creature the sensible man and of combining original observations with
sweeping generalization , of seeing enemies everywhere and despising all of
them .
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It has its private language and its common memories , and at the approach of an
enemy it closes its ranks . A family with the wrong members in control – that ,
perhaps , is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase .
It has its private language and its common memories , and at the approach of an
enemy it closes its ranks . A family with the wrong members in control – that ,
perhaps , is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase .
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It needs some very great disaster , such as prolonged subjugation by a foreign
enemy , to destroy a national culture . The Stock Exchange will be pulled down ,
the horse plough will give way to the tractor , the country houses will be turned
into ...
It needs some very great disaster , such as prolonged subjugation by a foreign
enemy , to destroy a national culture . The Stock Exchange will be pulled down ,
the horse plough will give way to the tractor , the country houses will be turned
into ...
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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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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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