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Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford was an English socialist campaigner, journalist, and author in the United Kingdom. He was also noted as a prominent atheist, opponent of eugenics, and English nationalist. In the early 1920s, after the death of his wife, he turned towards spiritualism. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. March 1851 – 17. December 1943
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Robert Blatchford Quotes

“To say that we could not work without capital is as true as to say that we could not mow without a scythe. To say that we could not work without a capitalist is as false as to say that we could not mow a meadow unless all the scythes belonged to one man. Nay, it is as false as to say that we could not mow unless all the scythes belonged to one man and he took a third of the harvest as payment for the loan of them.”

Robert Blatchford book Merrie England

Merrie England (1893) Chapter XXIII, Luxury, p. 182 ( 1894 printing https://archive.org/details/merrieengland00blatiala)

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“I will venture to claim that I have been an honest writer and a loyal Englishman. England has many worthier sons; but few who more dearly love her.”

Robert Blatchford

Source: My Eighty Years (1931), p. 274

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