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An Unsocial Socialist

CHAPTER XV
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Sir Charles cannot obey the command of Christ; I defy him to do it.

Let him give his land for a public park; only the richer classes will have leisure to enjoy it.

Plant it at the very doors of the poor, so that they may at last breathe its air, and it will raise the value of the neighboring houses and drive the poor away.
Let him endow a school for the poor, like Eton or Christ's Hospital, and the rich will take it for their own children as they do in the two instances I have named.

Sir Charles does not want to minister to poverty, but to abolish it.

No matter how much you give to the poor, everything except a bare subsistence wage will be taken from them again by force.


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