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Yes--that's true. It is easy for a man to rise. It was easy for a slave to escape from the South--comparatively easy. But is it easy for the class to rise? Was it easy for the slaves to be free? That is the problem--the problem of lifting a whole class--as your class has been lifted, young fellow, in the last century. Why, over in Wales a century ago, a mere tradesman's son like you--was--was nobody. The middle classes had nothing--that is, nothing much. They have risen. They rule the world now. This century must see the rise of the laboring class; not here and there as a man who gets out of our class and then sneers at us, and pretends he was with us by accident--but we must rise as a class, boy--don't you see?