Other Chaucerian manuscripts had the virgule (or virgil or oblique: /) at the middle of lines.

If a single capitalist sends money abroad where he gets 10 per cent interest, although he could provicde employment within his own country for a mass of surplus people, he deserves a civic crown from the capitalistic standpoint, since this virtuous bourgeois carries out the law which apportions capital within the world market just as within the walls of a society just in accordance with the rate of profit which particular spheres of production offer, and precisely thereby equalizes the rate of profit and proportionizes production.

A pair of loon pants and a CND badge complete the effect.

That concept of a united ummah has survived all subsequent divisions in Islam, including the great and so far permanent rupture between Sunni and Shī‘a ….