The Splendid Paupers : a Tale of the Coming Plutocracy : Being the Christmas Number of the Review of Reviews, 1894
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" Besides, I should like to utilise the aptitude I have obtained by my study of-human criminology in whatever profession I take up. The dream of my life is to invent a new drink that ■would be pleasanter t) taste than champagne, but would intoxicate as rapidly as brandy, and would be as fatal as opium. If I could discover that nectar of the gods, and could hold it to the parched lips of poor, hard-driven humanity, I should become as rich as a brewer, and, at the same time, enjoy the- exquisite ...satisfartion of knowing, as I watched the increase in the death-rate, that I was appreciably diminishing the sum total of human misery." " Get out with you ! " said his companion. " Precious little you care about the misery'of the world, and although cant may answer on the small scale, there is not enough money in it to make it worth your while taking it up at your age." Ping Yang Yaloo's factories, meanwhile, were grovfing apace. He had all the latest machinery brought from England and America.
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