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Quotation from In Darkest England and the Way Out by William Booth
“This Submerged Tenth--is it, then, beyond the reach of the nine-tenths in the midst of whom they live, and around whose homes they rot and die?”
In Darkest England and the Way Out, Part 1, Chapter 2: The Submerged Tenth (William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out (London: Salvation Army, 1890), via Project Gutenberg #475)
Part I, chapter 2, introducing Booth's term for the destitute population.
Citation: "This Submerged Tenth--is it, then, beyond the reach of the nine-tenths in the midst of whom they live, and around whose homes they rot and die?" — William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out, Part 1, Chapter 2: The Submerged Tenth (William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out (London: Salvation Army, 1890), via Project Gutenberg #475). (id booth-in-darkest-england-q1)
