1 Winston wondered vaguely to what century the church belonged.
2 By the late nineteenth century the recurrence of this pattern had become obvious to many observers.
3 But by the fourth decade of the twentieth century all the main currents of political thought were authoritarian.
4 War, however, is no longer the desperate, annihilating struggle that it was in the early decades of the twentieth century.
5 By the standards of the early twentieth century, even a member of the Inner Party lives an austere, laborious kind of life.
6 If there was any one still alive who could give you a truthful account of conditions in the early part of the century, it could only be a prole.
7 But the principal, underlying cause was that, as early as the beginning of the twentieth century, human equality had become technically possible.
8 To return to the agricultural past, as some thinkers about the beginning of the twentieth century dreamed of doing, was not a practicable solution.
9 Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do with the surplus of consumption goods has been latent in industrial society.
10 The splitting up of the world into three great super-states was an event which could be and indeed was foreseen before the middle of the twentieth century.
11 The peculiar pressure that it exerted on human beings between the Neolithic Age and the early twentieth century has disappeared and been replaced by something quite different.
12 Motives which were already present to some small extent in the great wars of the early twentieth century have now become dominant and are consciously recognized and acted upon.
13 The new doctrines arose partly because of the accumulation of historical knowledge, and the growth of the historical sense, which had hardly existed before the nineteenth century.
14 Socialism, a theory which appeared in the early nineteenth century and was the last link in a chain of thought stretching back to the slave rebellions of antiquity, was still deeply infected by the Utopianism of past ages.
15 But they had been foreshadowed by the various systems, generally called totalitarian, which had appeared earlier in the century, and the main outlines of the world which would emerge from the prevailing chaos had long been obvious.
16 The new movements which appeared in the middle years of the century, Ingsoc in Oceania, Neo-Bolshevism in Eurasia, Death-Worship, as it is commonly called, in Eastasia, had the conscious aim of perpetuating UNfreedom and INequality.
17 In the early twentieth century, the vision of a future society unbelievably rich, leisured, orderly, and efficient--a glittering antiseptic world of glass and steel and snow-white concrete--was part of the consciousness of nearly every literate person.
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