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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: of wealth, and took their value from our neighbours' poverty.
A few shocks of logic, a few disclosures (in the journalistic
phrase) of what the freedom of manufacturers, landlords, or
shipowners may imply for operatives, tenants, or seamen, and
we not unnaturally begin to turn to that other pole of hope,
beneficent tyranny. Freedom, to be desirable, involves
kindness, wisdom, and all the virtues of the free; but the
free man as we have seen him in action has been, as of yore,
only the master of many helots; and the slaves are still ill-
fed, ill-clad, ill-taught, ill-housed, insolently treated,
and driven to their mines and workshops by the lash of
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