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Title The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Page 201
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Text `So you might, but you wouldn't if you'd been brought up in the same way as most of the workers. They've been taught that it's very wicked to use their own judgement, or to think. And their children are being taught so now. Do you remember what you told me the other day, when you came home from school, about the Scripture lesson?'

`About St Thomas?'

`Yes. What did the teacher say St Thomas was?'

`She said he was a bad example; and she said I was worse than him because I asked too many foolish questions. She always gets in a wax if I talk too much.'

`Well, why did she call St Thomas a bad example?'

`Because he wouldn't believe what he was told.'

`Exactly: well, when you told Dad about it
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Manuscript, Page 191a
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