young fellow of two and twenty, I think I have
sufficiently indicated his philosophy of life a"nd the
underlying economic reason for it. Home life he
had never known. The word home aroused noth
ing but unpleasant associations. In the low wao:es

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of his father, and of other men in the same walk in
life, he found sufficient reason for branding wife
and children as encumbrances and causes of mas
culine misery. An unconscious hedonist, utterly
unmoral and materialistic, he sought the greatest
possible happiness for himself, and found it in drink.

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