| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1308 |
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The occupants of Nimrod's coach have already been described and most of them may correctly be classed as being similar to cretin idiots of the third degree - very cunning and selfish, and able to read and write, but with very little understanding of what they read except on the most common topics. As for those who rode with Harlow in the last coach, most of them, as has been already intimated, were men of similar character to himself. The greater number of them fairly good workmen and - unlike the boozers in Crass's coach - not yet quite heartbroken, but still continuing the hopeless struggle against poverty. These differed from Nimrod's lot inasmuch as they were not content. They were always complaining of their wretched circumstances, and found a certain kind of pleasure in listening |
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