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... civilization , it is you . However much you hate it or laugh at it , you will never be happy away from it for any length of time . The suet puddings and the red pillar - boxes have entered into your soul . Good or evil , it is yours ...
... civilization , it is you . However much you hate it or laugh at it , you will never be happy away from it for any length of time . The suet puddings and the red pillar - boxes have entered into your soul . Good or evil , it is yours ...
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... civilization in which children grow up with an intimate knowledge of magnetoes and in complete ignorance of the Bible . To that civilization belong the people who are most at home in and most definitely of the modern world , the ...
... civilization in which children grow up with an intimate knowledge of magnetoes and in complete ignorance of the Bible . To that civilization belong the people who are most at home in and most definitely of the modern world , the ...
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... civilization , the peculiar civilization which I discussed earlier in this book . It will not be doctrinaire , nor even logical . It will abolish the House of Lords , but quite probably will not abolish the Monarchy . It will leave ...
... civilization , the peculiar civilization which I discussed earlier in this book . It will not be doctrinaire , nor even logical . It will abolish the House of Lords , but quite probably will not abolish the Monarchy . It will leave ...
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army Blimps bombing planes Britain British ruling class BURMESE DAYS capitalism capitalist Chamberlain civilization coloured common Communists conquered culture CYRIL CONNOLLY danger defeat democracy destroyed disaster enemy England English Genius English Socialist Europe European exist face fact Fascism feel fighting foreign GEORGE ORWELL German gloomy Sundays grasp happen Hitler HOMAGE TO CATALONIA human hypocrisy idea imperial incomes India industry intellectuals intelligentsia Italians kind Labour Party left-wing less living London Martin Secker mean ment MICHAEL FOOT middle class military million modern monied class morale nation Nazi never numbers officers outlook ownership pacifist past patriotism peace political privilege pro-Fascist programme public schools revolution revolutionary rich Rolls-Royce car Russians SEARCHLIGHT BOOK SEBASTIAN HAFFNER simply slums snigger Socialist movement society Spanish Spanish civil war surrender T. C. WORSLEY tion totalitarianism treacherous true turn UNICORN Socialism whole workers