Hence the eager class-breaking activities which one
can see in progress onall sides. Everyone, barring fools and scoundrels,would like
to see the miner better off. Most people approve of capital punishment, but most
people wouldnt do thehangmans job.
Everyleft-wing intellectual is, as a matter of
course, an anti-imperialist.
I havepointed out that the left-wing opinions of
the average intellectual aremainly spurious. The next momentthe stevedore collapsed
on my chest and flung his arms round my neck.
Thatis the very last thing that any left-winger
wants. The Chinese, I believe, say that a white man smells like a
corpse.
You sit in the boughs and gibber with
superiority.
The class-bar was down, or seemed to be down. For
in the last resort, theonly important question is.
Hence the proletarian cant from which we now
suffer. Youcouldnt get a job as a navvy or a coal-miner even if you were equal to
thework.
For five years I had been part of anoppressive
system, and it had left me with a bad conscience.
Snob-bishness is one of those vices which we can
discern in every-one else but never in ourselves.
They are always twenty years out of
date.
It was too hot to sleep and we spent the night in
talking.
Hence the proletarian cant from which we now
suffer.
But would Beachcomber like it if one of his
ownfriends was caught cheating at cards? The white man almostalways goes bald, the
Burman seldom or never. Everyone, barring fools and scoundrels,would like to see the
miner better off. For in the last resort, theonly important question
is.
Every native face he seesin the street brings home
to him his monstrous intrusion.
I thought it over and decided what I would do.