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The Sleeper Awakes

CHAPTER XVIII
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You may be sure these children are educated for the blue canvas.

And so it is the Department works." "And none are destitute in the city ?" "None.

They are either in blue canvas or in prison.

We have abolished destitution.

It is engraved upon the Department's checks." "If they will not work ?" "Most people will work at that pitch, and the Department has powers.
There are stages of unpleasantness in the work--stoppage of food--and a man or woman who has refused to work once is known by a thumb-marking system in the Department's offices all over the world.


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