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H. G. Wells. This Misery of Boots
This Misery of Boots
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE WORLD AS BOOTS AND SUPERSTRUCTURE
CHAPTER II. PEOPLE WHOSE BOOTS DON’T HURT THEM
CHAPTER III. AT THIS POINT A DISPUTE ARISES
CHAPTER IV. IS SOCIALISM POSSIBLE?
CHAPTER V. SOCIALISM MEANS REVOLUTION
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H. G. Wells
Published by Good Press, 2021
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(i) They are made of some bad, unventilated material; and “draw the feet,” as people say.
(ii) They do not fit exactly. Most people have to buy ready-made boots; they cannot afford others, and, in the submissive philosophy of poverty, they wear them to “get used” to them. This gives you the little-toe pinch, the big-toe pinch, the squeeze and swelling across the foot; and, as a sort of chronic development of these pressures, come corns and all the misery of corns. Children’s feet get distorted for good by this method of fitting the human being to the thing; and a vast number of people in the world are, as a consequence of this, ashamed to appear barefooted. (I used to press people who came to see me in warm pleasant weather to play Badminton barefooted on the grass—a delightful thing to do—until I found out that many were embarrassed at the thought of displaying twisted toes and corns, and such-like disfigurements.)
