| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 994 |
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many more periodically starve: many actually die of want: hundreds destroy themselves rather than continue to live and suffer. When the Practical, Level-headed, Sensible Business-men are asked why they do not remedy this state of things, they reply that they do not know what to do! or, that it is impossible to remedy it! And yet it is admitted that it is now possible to produce the necessaries of life, in greater abundance than ever before! With lavish kindness, the Supreme Being had provided all things necessary for the existence and happiness of his creatures. To suggest that it is not so is a blasphemous lie: it is to suggest that the Supreme Being is not |
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