[An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw]@TWC D-Link bookAn Unsocial Socialist CHAPTER XV 25/71
Here is the yard; the arrangements are indescribable.
Seven of the inhabitants of that house had worked for years in my father's mill.
That is, they had created a considerable part of the vast sums of money for drawing your attention to which you were disgusted with me just now." "Not at all," said Sir Charles faintly. "You can see how their condition contrasts with that of my father's horses.
The seven men to whom I have alluded, with three hundred others, were thrown destitute upon the streets by this." (Here he turned over a leaf and displayed a photograph of an elaborate machine.) "It enabled my father to dispense with their services, and to replace them by a handful of women and children.
He had bought the patent of the machine for fifty pounds from the inventor, who was almost ruined by the expenses of his ingenuity, and would have sacrificed anything for a handful of ready money.
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