"I see what they are doing with this power!
Gratifying their vanity--turning men into slaves of their whim!
Squandering money upon empty pleasures--and with the dreadful plague
of poverty spreading in the world! I used to go to my father, 'Oh,
papa, why must there be so many poor people? Why should we have
servants--why should they have to wait on me, and I do nothing for
them?' He would try to explain to me that it was the way of Nature.
Mamma would tell me it was the will of the Lord--'The poor ye have
always with you'--'Servants, obey your masters'--and so on. But in
spite of the Bible texts, I felt guilty. And now I come to Douglas
with the same plea--and it only makes him angry! He has been to
college and has a lot of scientific phrases--he tells me it's 'the
struggle for existence,' 'the elimination of the unfit'--and so on.
I say to him, 'First we make people unfit, and then we have to
eliminate them.' He cannot see why I do not accept what learned
people tell me--why I persist in questioning and suffering."
She paused, and then added, "It's as if he were afraid I might find
out something he doesn't want me to! He's made me give him a promise
that I won't see Mrs.
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