| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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all hopelessly stupid? Had their intelligence never developed beyond the childhood stage? Or was he mad himself? `Early marriages is another thing,' said Slyme: `no man oughtn't to be allowed to get married unless he's in a position to keep a family.' `How can marriage be a cause of poverty?' said Owen, contemptuously. `A man who is not married is living an unnatural life. Why don't you continue your argument a little further and say that the practice of eating and drinking is the cause of poverty or that if people were to go barefoot and naked there would be no poverty? The man who is so poor that he cannot marry is in a condition of poverty already.' `Wot I mean,' said Slyme, `is that no man oughtn't to marry till he's saved up enough so as to 'ave some money in the bank; an' another thing, I reckon a man oughtn't to get married till 'e's got an 'ouse |
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