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Title The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Page 1408
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Text under some restraint: in an institute for instance.'

`Another good way to deal with 'em,' said Harlow, `would be to allow them double pay, so as they could drink themselves to death. We could do without the likes of them.'

`Call the next case,' said Philpot.

`This 'ere abundance that you're always talking about,' said Crass, you can't be sure that it would be possible to produce all that. You're only assoomin' that it could be done.'

Barrington pointed to the still visible outlines of the `Hoblong' that Owen had drawn on the wall to illustrate a previous lecture.

`Even under the present silly system of restricted production, with the majority of the population engaged in useless, unproductive, unnecessary work, and large numbers never doing
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