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The bastards who own these mills are millionaires. While the doffers and carders and all the people behind the machines who spin and weave the cloth can’t hardly make enough to keep their guts quiet. See? So when you walk around the streets and think about it and see hungry, worn-out people and ricket-legged younguns, don’t it make you mad? Don’t it?’
To begin with I like words. Dialectic materialism—Jesuitical prevarication’—Jake rolled the syllables in his mouth with loving solemnity—‘teleological propensity.’
