| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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`But who invented all the machinery?' cried Crass. `That's more than you or I or anyone else can say,' returned Owen, `but it certainly wasn't the wealthy loafer class, or the landlords, or the employers. Most of the men who invented the machinery lived and died unknown, in poverty and often in actual want. The inventors too were robbed by the fruits of their labour by the |
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