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Page 13
He said that he had come to this position just before the actual outbreak of war :
that the night before the Hitler - Stalin pact was signed he had had a dream that
war had broken out , and that from this dream he had realized the true state of his
...
He said that he had come to this position just before the actual outbreak of war :
that the night before the Hitler - Stalin pact was signed he had had a dream that
war had broken out , and that from this dream he had realized the true state of his
...
Page 64
It is clear that the special position of the English intellectuals during the past ten
years , as purely negative creatures , mere anti - Blimps , was a by - product of
ruling - class stupidity . Society could not use them , and they had not got it in
them ...
It is clear that the special position of the English intellectuals during the past ten
years , as purely negative creatures , mere anti - Blimps , was a by - product of
ruling - class stupidity . Society could not use them , and they had not got it in
them ...
Page 81
One cannot simply change from one system to the other as one might install a
new piece of machinery in a factory , and then carry on as before , with the same
people in positions of control . Obviously there is also needed a complete shift of
...
One cannot simply change from one system to the other as one might install a
new piece of machinery in a factory , and then carry on as before , with the same
people in positions of control . Obviously there is also needed a complete shift of
...
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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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