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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

CHAPTER 6
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You have seen how they treat a misdoer there in the jail; now you see how they treat the innocent and the worthy.

Is your race logical?
Are these ill-smelling innocents better off than that heretic?
Indeed, no; his punishment is trivial compared with theirs.

They broke him on the wheel and smashed him to rags and pulp after we left, and he is dead now, and free of your precious race; but these poor slaves here--why, they have been dying for years, and some of them will not escape from life for years to come.

It is the Moral Sense which teaches the factory proprietors the difference between right and wrong--you perceive the result.

They think themselves better than dogs.


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