normal condition is one of sickening wretchedness. If
this is to be the permanent arrangement of modern
society, civilization must be held to bring a curse on the
great majority of mankind.

Ninety per cent ! The figures are appalling, yet
the Rev. Stopford Brooke, after drawing a frightful

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London picture, finds himself compelled to multiply
it by half a million. Here it is:

I often used to meet, when I was curate at Kensing
ton, families drifting into London along the Hammersmith
Road. One day there came along a laborer and his wife,
his son and two daughters. Their family had lived for a
long time on an estate in the country, and managed, with
the help of the common-land and their labor, to get on.

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