[Better Dead by J. M. Barrie]@TWC D-Link bookBetter Dead CHAPTER IX 4/10
This is an aspiration inherent in the human breast.
It is felt most keenly by the poor. "Make the poor rich, and the hovels, the misery, the immorality, and the crime of the East End disappear.
It is infamous, say the Socialists, that this is not done at once.
Yes, but how is it to be done? Not, as they hold, by making the classes and the masses change places.
Not on the lines on which the society has hitherto worked. There is only one way, and I make it my text to-night.
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