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Orwell prefaces his rules by the following sentence:
In short, he explicitly states that it's when this aesthetic instinct fails that the rules are to be applied. And he talks in detail about the process he suggests be used BEFORE turning to the rules as a last resort.
Possible, but mostly irrelevant, unless we're shown that Orwell used the passive somewhere where he ought have used the active...