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Tdentifying evidence
What type of evidence does Orwell use in this
passage?
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Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things
without calling up mental pictures of them. Consider for
instance some comfortable English professor defending
Russian totalitarianism. He cannot say outright, “I
believe in killing off your opponents when you can get
good results by doing so." Probably, therefore, he will say
something like this:
While freely conceding that the Soviet regime exhibits
certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined
to deplore, we must, I think, agree that a certain
curtailment of the right to political opposition is an
unavoidable concomitant of transitional periods, and that
the rigors which the Russian people have been called
upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere
of concrete achievement.
-"Politics and the English Language,"
George Orwell