Why should I be parsimonious with this life which is cheap and without value?
There are more sailors than there are ships on the sea for them, more workers than there are factories or machines for them.

Why, you who live on the land know that you house your poor people in the slums of cities and loose famine and pestilence upon them, and that there still remain more poor people, dying for want of a crust of bread and a bit of meat (which is life destroyed), than you know what to do with.

Have you ever seen the London dockers fighting like wild beasts for a chance to work ?" He started for the companion stairs, but turned his head for a final word.

"Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself?
And it is of course over-estimated since it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour.

Take that man I had aloft.