“Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.”

— George Orwell, book Inside the Whale and Other Essays

"Charles Dickens" (1939), Inside the Whale and Other Essays (1940) http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/dickens/english/e_chd <br class="br">Charles Dickens (1939)

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