The laborers, who are paupers, or on the verge of pauperism--who are destitute, or on the verge of destitution--comprise (with their families) doubtless nine-tenths, probably nineteen-twentieths, of all the people on the globe.
Spooner highlights the vast majority of people living in poverty around the world.
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