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Military dictatorships exist everywhere , but there is no such thing as a naval
dictatorship . What English people of nearly all classes loathe from the bottom of
their hearts is the swaggering officer type , the jingle of spurs and the crash of
boots .
Military dictatorships exist everywhere , but there is no such thing as a naval
dictatorship . What English people of nearly all classes loathe from the bottom of
their hearts is the swaggering officer type , the jingle of spurs and the crash of
boots .
Page 51
But does this mean that the instinct of the English will always tell them to do the
right thing ? Not at all , merely that it will tell them to do the same thing . In the
1931 General Election , for instance , we all did the wrong thing in perfect unison
.
But does this mean that the instinct of the English will always tell them to do the
right thing ? Not at all , merely that it will tell them to do the same thing . In the
1931 General Election , for instance , we all did the wrong thing in perfect unison
.
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But things had not gone that distance in England . ... One thing that has always
shown that the English ruling class are ... treachery , or physical cowardice , but
stupidity , unconscious sabotage , an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing .
But things had not gone that distance in England . ... One thing that has always
shown that the English ruling class are ... treachery , or physical cowardice , but
stupidity , unconscious sabotage , an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing .
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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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