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A People’s Man

CHAPTER XV
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Since you have had understanding, your eyes have been fixed upon this one immense problem.

I have a question to ask you concerning it.

Shall I destroy for the sake of the unborn generations, or shall I use all my cunning and the power of the people to lead them a little further into the light during their living days?
What would they say themselves, do you think?
Would one in a hundred be content to sacrifice himself for a principle ?" "Who knows that the millennium would be so long delayed ?" Julia exclaimed.

"A few years might see Society reconstituted, with new laws and a new humanity." Maraton shook his head.
"Don't make any mistake about that," he said.

"If I press the levers upon which to-day my hand seems to rest, this country will be laid waste with famine and riot and conquest.


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