| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 733 |
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There's nothing like proving one's principles.' Original Parables. By Mrs Prosier. `There you are!' cried several voices. `What does that mean?' cried Crass, triumphantly. `Why don't you go and share your wages with the chaps what's out of work?' `What does it mean?' replied Owen contemptuously. `It means that if the Editor of the Obscurer put that in his paper as an argument against Socialism, either he is of feeble intellect himself or else he thinks that the majority of his readers are. That isn't an argument against Socialism - it's an argument against the hypocrites who pretend to be Christians - the people who profess to "Love their neighbours as themselves" - who pretend to believe in Universal Brotherhood, and that they do not love the world or the things of the world |
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