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devil take the hindmost

An imprecation that everyone should look after their own interests, leaving those who cannot cope to whatever fate befalls them.
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And [we] coldly see the all-conquering valiant Sons of Toil sit enchanted, by the million, in their Poor-Law Bastille, as if this were Nature’s Law; — mumbling to ourselves some vague janglement of Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, Cash-payment the one nexus of man to man: Free-trade, Competition, and Devil take the hindmost, our latest Gospel yet preached!

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Submitted on July 07, 2010

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