Source: Light in August (1932), Chapter 4
“The guardian of poor suffering mankind.”
Source: The Suppliants, lines 382–383 (tr. Christopher Collard)
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Φύλακα πολυπόνων βροτῶν.
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Interview http://www.rationalrevolution.net/special/library/cc835_44.htm with H. G. Wells (September 1937)
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Variant: Which means Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.