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This is one of the mutterings which they are muttering today: "The…
Quote byBouck White · 1874–1951
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Call of the Carpenter (1914), p. xvii.
English (original)
This is one of the mutterings which they are muttering today: "The social well-being of the people, the upward movement of the non-propertied or labour classes to material welfare, is continually being obstructed by conceptions of political subserviency and passive obedience to despotic authority, which is directly traceable to Christian doctrine."
— Bouck White
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