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A People’s Man

CHAPTER XIII
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As their physical condition improved, so would their minds.

As the conditions under which men live become more equal, so will their brains become more equal and their power of acquiring wealth.

This, remember, may be the work of a hundred years--perhaps more--but it is the end at which we should aim." "You absolutely mean, then," Mr.Foley persisted, "to destroy the welfare of the country for this generation and perhaps the next, in order that a new people may arise, governed according to your methods, in ages which neither you nor I nor any of us will ever see ?" "That is what I mean," Maraton assented.

"Need I remind you that if we had not possessed in the past men who gave their lives for the sake of posterity, the nations of the world would be even in a more backward condition than they are to-day ?" Mr.Foley smiled.
"Mr.Maraton," he said, "now I am going to ask you this question.
To-morrow you go to Manchester to pronounce your doctrines.

To-morrow you are going to incite the working people of England practically to revolt.


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