SAWING THE BRANCH
Dean Inge, writing in the Edinburgh Review, points out that "tho working man is sawing at tho branch on which he its seated. He may benefit for a time a minority of his own class, but only by sealing the doom of the rest. A densely populated country, which is unable to feed itself, can never be a workman's paradise, a land of short hours and high wages. And the sentimentalist, kind only to bo cruel, unwittingly promotes precisely the results which he-most deprecates, though thoy aro. often much more beneficial than his own aims. The evil that he would'ho does not; and,the good that he would not, that he sometimes does." '
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 40, 16 August 1919, Page 10
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115SAWING THE BRANCH Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 40, 16 August 1919, Page 10
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