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Each tradition must be examined on its own . We apply general standards of
judgement , but conditions vary . All he insists upon is that we cannot ever fully
escape national traditions , nor should we try ; that indeed the Left would be
stronger ...
Each tradition must be examined on its own . We apply general standards of
judgement , but conditions vary . All he insists upon is that we cannot ever fully
escape national traditions , nor should we try ; that indeed the Left would be
stronger ...
Page 24
... reveals Orwell ' s political thought as by no means typically liberal , but
standing rather in a harsher , more realistic republican tradition , partly
Jacobinical , partly old English Puritan . Liberty is not just being left alone , it is up
and doing : a ...
... reveals Orwell ' s political thought as by no means typically liberal , but
standing rather in a harsher , more realistic republican tradition , partly
Jacobinical , partly old English Puritan . Liberty is not just being left alone , it is up
and doing : a ...
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If Orwell ' s political thought is hardly systematic , it is nonetheless brilliantly
expressive of that tradition of ' English socialism ' which , through William Morris ,
Robert Blatchford , Edward Carpenter , the early H . G . Wells , R . H . Tawney , G
. D ...
If Orwell ' s political thought is hardly systematic , it is nonetheless brilliantly
expressive of that tradition of ' English socialism ' which , through William Morris ,
Robert Blatchford , Edward Carpenter , the early H . G . Wells , R . H . Tawney , G
. D ...
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| 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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