Suppose there isn't any hereafter ?" "Oh, don't say that, please!" Lily cried.
"But I don't _know_ that there is," he went on remorselessly, "and I do know that these people are being robbed of something more than money, of all that makes life worth living.

The promise of milk and honey in Canaan is all very well, but I prefer to have mine here; then I'm sure of it." "What can we do ?" murmured the girl.
"Do?
Rouse these people for one thing; preach _discontent_, a noble discontent." "It will only make them unhappy." "No, it won't; not if you show them the way out.

If it does, it's better to be unhappy striving for higher things, like a man, than to be content in a wallow like swine." "But what _is_ the way out ?" This was sufficient to set Radbourn upon his hobby-horse.

He outlined his plan of action--the abolition of all indirect taxes; the State control of all privileges the private ownership of which interfered with the equal rights of all.

He would utterly destroy speculative holdings of the earth.