“Christmas Eve” combines our modern nostalgic and pre-Christian images of Christmas.
“Christmas Eve” combines our modern nostalgic and pre-Christian images of Christmas.
From Carlyle onwards, but especially in the last generation, the British intelligentsia have tended to take their ideas from Europe and have been infected by habits of thought that derive ultimately from Machiavelli. All the cults that have been fashionable in the last dozen years, Communism, Fascism, and pacifism, are in the last analysis forms of power worship. — George Orwell (The English People)