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Before the Boer War they prepared for the Zulu War , before the 1914 for the Boer
War , and before the present war for 1914 . Even at this moment hundreds of
thousands of men in England are being trained with the bayonet , a weapon ...
Before the Boer War they prepared for the Zulu War , before the 1914 for the Boer
War , and before the present war for 1914 . Even at this moment hundreds of
thousands of men in England are being trained with the bayonet , a weapon ...
Page 86
But at present we have nothing to appeal to except traditional patriotism , which is
deeper here than elsewhere , but is not necessarily bottomless . At some point or
another you have got to deal with the man who says ' I should be no worse off ...
But at present we have nothing to appeal to except traditional patriotism , which is
deeper here than elsewhere , but is not necessarily bottomless . At some point or
another you have got to deal with the man who says ' I should be no worse off ...
Page 118
Another twenty years along the present line of development , and India will be a
peasant republic linked with England only by voluntary alliance . The ' semi -
apes ' of whom Hitler speaks with such loathing will be flying aeroplanes and ...
Another twenty years along the present line of development , and India will be a
peasant republic linked with England only by voluntary alliance . The ' semi -
apes ' of whom Hitler speaks with such loathing will be flying aeroplanes and ...
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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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