| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 550 |
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cunning, unfeeling and selfish you are the better it will be for you. As long as this `Battle of Life' System endures, we have no right to blame other people for doing the same things that we are ourselves compelled to do. Blame the system. But that IS just what the hands did not do. They blamed each other; they blamed Crass, and Hunter, and Rushton, but with the Great System of which they were all more or less the victims they were quite content, being persuaded that it was the only one possible and the best that human wisdom could devise. The reason why they all believed this was because not one of them had ever troubled to inquire whether it would not be possible to order things differently. They were content with the present system. If they had not been content they would have been anxious to find some way to alter it. But they had never taken the trouble to seriously inquire whether |
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