50 “strange and inhuman” – Ibid., p. 14.
51 “like a well-oiled engine” – Ibid., p. 117.
52 “There will be many Utopias” – Ibid., p. 245.
53 “We all want to abolish” – Orwell, “Can Socialists Be Happy?”, CW XVI, 2397, pp. 39–40.
54 “struggle, danger and death” – Orwell, Review of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, New English Weekly, March 21, 1940, CW XII, 602, p. 118.
55 “The difference between us” – Quoted in Smith, p. 167.
56 “besetting sin” – Attlee, p. 138.
57 “counterblast to one of the heavens” – E. M. Forster, The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster (Alfred A. Knopf, 1947), pp. 7–8.
58 “Science, instead of freeing man” – Quoted in P. N. Furbank, E. M. Forster: A Life (1879–1970) (Secker & Warburg, 1979), p. 161.
59 “several thousand” – Forster, p. 145.
60 “What was the good” – Ibid., p. 156.
61 “Progress had come to mean” – Ibid., p. 186.
62 “terrestrial facts” and “absolutely colourless” – Ibid., p. 183.
63 “confused, tedious” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 660.
64 “He has neither the patience” – Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 206.
65 “plan for the reconstruction” – H. G. Wells, Socialism and the Family (A. C. Fifield, 1906), p. 6.
66 “Many writers, perhaps most” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, December 6, 1946, CW XVIII, 3131, p. 511.
67 “Wells watered down” – Orwell letter to Julian Symons, CW XIX, 3397, p. 336.
68 “The return to complete sanity” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 668.
69 “a wave of sanity” – Ibid., p. 666.