| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1553 |
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also unfinished, and an angry wrangle about the second issue would ensue, the original subject being altogether forgotten. They did not seem to really desire to discover the truth or to find out the best way to bring about an improvement in their condition, their only object seemed to be to score off their opponents. Usually after one of these arguments, Owen would wander off by himself, with his head throbbing and a feeling of unutterable depression and misery at his heart; weighed down by a growing conviction of the hopelessness of everything, of the folly of expecting that his fellow workmen would ever be willing to try to understand for themselves the causes that produced their sufferings. |
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