Democracy An Address Delivered in the Town Hall Birmingham
The book Democracy An Address Delivered in the Town Hall Birmingham was written by author Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 Here you can read free online of Democracy An Address Delivered in the Town Hall Birmingham book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Democracy An Address Delivered in the Town Hall Birmingham a good or bad book?
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A Father of the Church said that property was theft many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national work- shops, and of the theory that the State owed every man a living. Nay, was not the Church herself the first organized Democracy? A few centuries ago the chief end of man was to keep his soul alive, and then the little kernel of leaven that sets the gases at work was religious, and produced the Reformation. Even in that, far- sighted... persons like the Emperor Charles V. Saw the germ of polit- ical and social revolution. Now so DEMOCRACY that the chief end of man seems to have become the keeping of the body alive, and as comfortably alive as possible, the leaven also has become wholly political and social. But there had also been social upheavals before the Re- formation and contemporaneously with it, especially among men of Teutonic race. The Reformation gave outlet and direction to an unrest already existing. Formerly the immense majority of men — our brothers — knew only their sufferings, their wants, and their desires.
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