Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt…

H. G. Wells
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Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty. ✨ H. G. Wells (1933). Shape Things Come
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