...secret police. How right the working classes are in their "materialism"! How right they are to realise that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time! Understand that, and the long horror that we are enduring becomes at least intelligible. All the considerations...

...fear of the secret police. How right the working classes are in their "materialism": How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time! Understand that and the long horror that we are enduring becomes at least intelligible.7 Orwell's dilemma...

...cannot be lived at all. . How right the working classes are in their “materialism”! How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time. George Orwell, “Looking Back on the Spanish War” (1943) From the account thus far, one might justifiably...

...humanity can be tackled. . . . How right the working classes are in their 'materialism'! How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul,...not in the scale of values but in point of time!" (v. 2, 304-305). The single quotation marks around the word express Orwell's doubt as to whether the...

...in their materialism,' he wrote in 'Looking Back on the Spanish War'; 'How right they are to realise that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time.' Spain had left another, more disquieting legacy: it had shattered his health. Despite the gloomy prognoses...

...cannot be lived at all .... How right the working classes are in their "materialism"! How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time. (George Orwell, "Looking Back on the Spanish War", 1943) From the account thus far, one might justifiably...