← Several nights a week, after Mr. Jones was asleep, they held secret meetings in the barn and expounded the principles of Animalism to the others. 🔊
← They explained that by their studies of the past three months the pigs had succeeded in reducing the principles of Animalism to Seven Commandments. 🔊
← This, he said, contained the essential principle of Animalism. Whoever had thoroughly grasped it would be safe from human influences. 🔊
← The other farmers sympathised in principle, but they did not at first give him much help. 🔊
← Once again all rations were reduced, except those of the pigs and the dogs. A too rigid equality in rations, Squealer explained, would have been contrary to the principles of Animalism. 🔊
← None of them proved able to learn the alphabet beyond the letter B. They accepted everything that they were told about the Rebellion and the principles of Animalism, especially from Clover, for whom they had an almost filial respect; but it was doubtful whether they understood very much of it. 🔊