| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1043 |
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at all, or if it were only an illusion of his own disordered mind. One of the things that the human race needed in order to exist was shelter; so with much painful labour they had constructed a large number of houses. Thousands of these houses were now standing unoccupied, while millions of the people who had helped to build the houses were either homeless or herding together in overcrowded hovels. These human beings had such a strange system of arranging their affairs that if anyone were to go and burn down a lot of the houses he would be conferring a great boon upon those who had built them, because such an act would `Make a lot more work!' Another very comical thing was that thousands of people wore broken boots and ragged clothes, while millions of |
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