| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1304 |
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an outing more or less similar to this being the sum total of their pleasures. These four brakes might fitly be regarded as so many travelling lunatic asylums, the inmates of each exhibiting different degrees and forms of mental disorder. The occupants of the first - Rushton, Didlum and Co. - might be classed as criminal lunatics who injured others as well as themselves. In a properly constituted system of society such men as these would be regarded as a danger to the community, and would be placed under such restraint as would effectually prevent them from harming themselves or others. These wretches had abandoned every thought and thing that tends to the elevation of humanity. They had given up everything that makes life good and beautiful, in |
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