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Page 49
He got a quarter of a million men in the first twenty - four hours , and another
million in the subsequent month . One has only to compare these figures with , for
instance , the number of conscientious objectors to see how vast is the strength of
...
He got a quarter of a million men in the first twenty - four hours , and another
million in the subsequent month . One has only to compare these figures with , for
instance , the number of conscientious objectors to see how vast is the strength of
...
Page 56
Only half a million people , the people in the country houses , definitely benefited
from the existing system . Moreover , the tendency of small businesses to merge
together into large ones robbed more and more of the moneyed class of their ...
Only half a million people , the people in the country houses , definitely benefited
from the existing system . Moreover , the tendency of small businesses to merge
together into large ones robbed more and more of the moneyed class of their ...
Page 105
The resistance will come from the big capitalists , the bankers , the landlords and
the idle rich , roughly speaking the class with over £2 , 000 a year - and even if
one counts in all their dependants there are not more than half a million of these
...
The resistance will come from the big capitalists , the bankers , the landlords and
the idle rich , roughly speaking the class with over £2 , 000 a year - and even if
one counts in all their dependants there are not more than half a million of these
...
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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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