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The Lighted Way

CHAPTER XIV
18/27

The whole of life is a system of robbery.

The strong help themselves, the weak go down.

Did you call your splendid seamen of Queen Elizabeth's time robbers, because they nailed the English flag to their mast and swept the seas for plunder?
'We are strong,' they cried to the country they robbed, 'and you are weak.

Stand and deliver!' I spare you a hundred instances.

Take your commercial life of to-day.


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