In 1933 George Orwell published Down and Out in Paris and London. Seventy years later, his book feels like it was written yesterday. The life of a young unemployed man seems to be universally the same at all times in history.
Orwell is most famous for his extreme left-wing anarchist and socialist politics. Yet, his humanity comes through clearly. He is a keen observer of life, and rarely let his politics cloud his writing. He described what he saw without histrionics, polemic, or ad hominem attacks.
Page 65: The doorkeeper played similar tricks on any employee who was fool enough to be taken in. He called himself a Greek, but in reality he was an Armenian. After knowing him I saw the force in the proverb 'Trust a snake before a Jew, and a Jew before a Greek, but don't trust an Armenian.'
What is one to make of such a proverb? It is undeniably true; yet, the most important, saintly theologian of the twentieth century was an Armenian. I refer to Rousas Rushdoony, author of the Institutes of Biblical Law.