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'Apart altogether frohts; we are born into this planet without our consent, and,

therefore, we may make certain demands'

'Do you not think,' said Clara, 'that the repeal of the corn laill help you?' Dennis sely, 'Repeal of the corn laws is a conte

selfishness It reat

Manchester cotton lords care one straw for their hands? Not they!

They will face a revolution for repeal because it will enable theree with you entirely,' said Dennis, turning to Clara, 'that a

tax upon food is wrong; it is wrong in the abstract The notion of

taxing bread, the fruit of the earth, is most repulsive; but the

point is--what is our policy to be? If a certain end is to be

achieved, we lect subordinate ends, and, at times, even

contradict what our own principles would appear to dictate That is

the secret of successful leadership' He took up the poker and stirred the fire

'That will do, Dennis,' said Marshall, as evidently fidgety

'The roo in Vincent which irritates

me more than those bits of poetry hich he winds up

"God made the man--man made the slave," and all that stuff If God made the aaious, but we shall see Let us

once get the six points, and the Established Church will go, and we

shall have secular education, and in a generation there will not be

one superstition left'

'Theological superstition, you mean?' said Clara