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Title The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Page 1424
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Text that a congregation of agnostics, for instance, might want a separate building or to maintain a lecturer.'

`What the 'ell's an agnostic?' demanded Bundy.

`An agnostic,' said the man behind the moat, `is a bloke wot don't believe nothing unless 'e see it with 'is own eyes.'

`All these details,' continued the speaker, `of the organization of affairs and the work of the Co-operative Commonwealth, are things which do not oncern us at all. They have merely been suggested by different individuals as showing some ways in which these things could be arranged. The exact methods to be adopted will be decided upon by the opinion of the majority when the work is being done. Meantime, what we have to do is to insist upon the duty of the State to provide productive work for the unemployed, the State
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