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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: V.--Again, it is objected that the class whose benefit we
contemplate would not have physical ability to work on a farm, or in
the open air.
How, it is asked, would tailors, clerks, weavers, seamstresses,
and the destitute people, born and reared in the slums and
poverty-hovels of the towns and cities, do farm or any other work that
has to do with the land? The employment in the open air, with exposure
to every kind of weather which accompanies it, would, it is said, kill
them off right away.
We reply, that the division of labour before described would render it
as unnecessary as it would be undesirable and uneconomical, to put many
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