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 "There are that remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and feed them.

"They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

"They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

"Behold, as wild asses in the desert they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for meat; the wilderness yieldeth them food for their children.

"They cut their provender in the field, and they glean the vintage of the wicked.

"They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

"They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

"There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

"So that they go about naked without clothing, and being an hungered they carry the sheaves."

Seven and twenty centuries agone! And it is all as true and apposite today in the innermost centre of this Christian civilisation whereof Edward VII is king.

The Wrongfulness of Riches

(See page 210)

Have you ever reflected with what equipment of rights the average citizen is born endowed in England? With the right of moving up and down the public roads till he drops from exhaustion. That is all. Literally and absolutely all.