| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1364 |
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`Exactly,' replied the lecturer. `They tell us themselves that that is how they got them away from us; they call their profits the "wages of intelligence". Whilst we have been working, they have been using their intelligence in order to obtain possession of the things we have created. The time has now arrived for us to use our intelligence in order to get back the things they have robbed us of, aid to prevent them from robbing us any more. As for how it is to be done, we might copy the methods that they have found so successful.' `Oh, then you DO mean to rob them after all,' cried Slyme, triumphantly. `If it's true that they robbed the workers, and if we're to adopt the same method then we'll be robbers too!' `When a thief is caught having in his possession the property of others it is not robbery to take the things away from him and to restore them to their rightful owners,' |
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