WORLD IMPROVERS—“Yes, I foresee that despite my teaching, Bell, you are going to become the most modern kind of half-baked optimist, the sort who wants to abolish riches and poverty by sharing out the world’s goods equally.” “That is only common sense!” I cried. “There are four sects who agree with you, but have different plans to bring it about. “The SOCIALISTS want the poor to elect them into parliament, where they plan to tax the surplus of the rich and make laws to give everyone productive work in good conditions, along with good food, housing, education and health care.” “A lovely idea!”
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