The damnable scheme of things which we call existence brings about conditions whereby whole masses suffer who have no cause to suffer, and, on the other hand, whole masses joy who have no cause to joy. The Living Age - Page 441926Full view - About this book
| Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Literary Collections - 1991 - 676 pages
...quote from Dreiser himself passages descriptive of that novelist's bright and breezy view of life: "The damnable scheme of things which we call existence...whereby whole masses suffer who have no cause to suffer. . . . We suffer for our temperament, which we did not make, and for our weaknesses and lacks, which... | |
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