But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime. Now, my dear namesake, these innocent and well-meaning people, your countrymen, have caused you to be born under conditions not very far removed from those described for us by Charles Dickens in the London of more than a hundred years ago. (I hear the chorus of the innocents screaming, ‘No! This is not true! How bitter you are!’ – but I am writing this letter to you, to try to tell you something about how to handle them, for most of them do not yet really know
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