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Title The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Page 377
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Text A murmur of approbation from the crowd greeted these sentiments; but Owen rejoined:

`But we can't both be right; if your opinions are right and mine are not, how am I to find out the truth if we never talk about them?'

`Well, wot do you reckon is the cause of poverty, then?' demanded Easton.

`The present system - competition - capitalism.'

`It's all very well to talk like that,' snarled Crass, to whom this statement conveyed no meaning whatever. `But 'ow do you make it out?'

`Well, I put it like that for the sake of shortness,' replied Owen. `Suppose some people were living in a house -'

`More supposin'!' sneered Crass.

`And suppose they were always ill, and
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