It is somehow bound up with solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays, smoky towns and winding roads, green fields and red pillar-boxes. It is a culture as individual as that of Spain. Yes, there is something distinctive and recognizable in English civilization. How can one make a pattern out of this muddle?Д«ut talk to foreigners, read foreign books or newspapers, and you are brought back to the same thought. Are there really such things as nations? Are we not forty-six million individuals, all different? And the diversity of it, the chaos! The clatter of clogs in the Lancashire mill towns, the to-and-fro of the lorries on the Great North Road, the queues outside the Labour Exchanges, the rattle of pin-tables in the Soho pubs, the old maids hiking to Holy Communion through the mists of the autumn morning вЂ“ all these are not only fragments, but characteristic fragments, of the English scene. Then the vastness of England swallows you up, and you lose for a while your feeling that the whole nation has a single identifiable character. The crowds in the big towns, with their mild knobby faces, their bad teeth and gentle manners, are different from a European crowd. The beer is bitterer, the coins are heavier, the grass is greener, the advertisements are more blatant. Even in the first few minutes dozens of small things conspire to give you this feeling. When you come back to England from any foreign country, you have immediately the sensation of breathing a different air. Few Europeans can endure living in England, and even Americans often feel more at home in Europe. There is a sort of backhanded admission of this in the dislike which nearly all foreigners feel for our national way of life. And, as western peoples go, the English are very highly differentiated. HitlerвЂ™s June Purge, for instance, could not have happened in England. Things that could happen in one country could not happen in another.

Till recently it was thought proper to pretend that all human beings are very much alike, but in fact anyone able to use his eyes knows that the average of human behaviour differs enormously from country to country. Hitler and Mussolini rose to power in their own countries very largely because they could grasp this fact and their opponents could not.ДЄlso, one must admit that the divisions between nation and nation are founded on real differences of outlook. Christianity and international Socialism are as weak as straw in comparison with it. In certain circumstances it can break down, at certain levels of civilization it does not exist, but as a positive force there is nothing to set beside it. One cannot see the modern world as it is unless one recognizes the overwhelming strength of patriotism, national loyalty. He is serving his country, which has the power to absolve him from evil. On the other hand, if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces with a well-placed bomb, he will never sleep any the worse for it. Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. They are вЂњonly doing their dutyвЂќ, as the saying goes. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. Part I: England Your England IДЄs I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. It has never been easier to support our work. The Orwell Foundation is a registered charity dedicated to perpetuating George OrwellвЂ™s legacy, whether through the prestigious Orwell Prizes, The Orwell Youth Prize educational programme, cultural events and debates, or resources like this one. This material remains under copyright in the US and is reproduced here with the kind assistance of the Orwell Estate. Home / Orwell / Essays and other works / The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius

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