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The People of the Abyss

CHAPTER XXIII--THE CHILDREN
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The magistrate discharged the two juvenile offenders and warned the father that he was bringing his children up unhealthily.
But there is no need further to multiply instances.

In London the slaughter of the innocents goes on on a scale more stupendous than any before in the history of the world.

And equally stupendous is the callousness of the people who believe in Christ, acknowledge God, and go to church regularly on Sunday.

For the rest of the week they riot about on the rents and profits which come to them from the East End stained with the blood of the children.

Also, at times, so peculiarly are they made, they will take half a million of these rents and profits and send it away to educate the black boys of the Soudan..


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