[The Iron Heel by Jack London]@TWC D-Link bookThe Iron Heel CHAPTER II 24/40
It did not protest, as to-day it does not protest.
As Austin Lewis* says, speaking of that time, those to whom the command 'Feed my lambs' had been given, saw those lambs sold into slavery and worked to death without a protest.** The Church was dumb, then, and before I go on I want you either flatly to agree with me or flatly to disagree with me. Was the Church dumb then ?" * Candidate for Governor of California on the Socialist ticket in the fall election of 1906 Christian Era.
An Englishman by birth, a writer of many books on political economy and philosophy, and one of the Socialist leaders of the times. ** There is no more horrible page in history than the treatment of the child and women slaves in the English factories in the latter half of the eighteenth century of the Christian Era.
In such industrial hells arose some of the proudest fortunes of that day. Bishop Morehouse hesitated.
Like Dr.Hammerfield, he was unused to this fierce "infighting," as Ernest called it. "The history of the eighteenth century is written," Ernest prompted.
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