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Title The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Page 1343
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Text family - found it more profitable to keep their captives as slaves than to eat them. The change from the primitive Communism of the tribes, into the more individualistic organization of the nations, and the development of private ownership of the land and slaves and means of subsistence. The change from chattel slavery into Feudalism; and the change from Feudalism into the earlier form of Capitalism; and the equally great change from what might be called the individualistic capitalism which displaced Feudalism, to the system of Co-operative Capitalism and Wage Slavery of today.' `I believe you must 'ave swollered a bloody dictionary,' exclaimed the man behind the moat.

`Keep horder" shouted Philpot, fiercely, striking the table with the hammer, and there were loud shouts of `Chair' and `Chuck 'im out,' from several quarters.

When order was restored, the lecturer proceeded:

`So it is not true that practically the suite
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