Gibberish!"
"No?" said Peter, "It's too earnest to deserve that name. The man can't
express himself, but way down underneath all the absurd talk of
'natural monopolies,' and of 'the oppression of the money-power,' there
lies a germ of truth, without which none of their theories would have a
corporal's guard of honest believers. We have been working towards that
truth in an unsystematic way for centuries, but we are a long way from
it, and till we solve how to realize it, we shall have ineffectual
discontent."
"But that makes the whole thing only the more arrant nonsense," grumbled
Ray. "It's foolish enough in all conscience sake, if they had a chance
of success, but when they haven't any, why the deuce do they want to
drag us poor beggars back from Newport?"
"Why did Rome insist on burning while Nero fiddled?" queried Peter
smiling. "We should hear nothing of socialism and anarchy if Newport and
the like had no existence."
"I believe at heart you're a Socialist yourself," cried Ray.
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