The Days Burden Studies Literary Political And Miscellaneous Essays
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But to torture these commonplaces into a new Iron Law, to linger on the difficulties and to deprecate the necessity of a changed order, is to have already declared war on the soul of labour. Forbid me to hope for myself, and it is a hard saying but not intolerable : widen that inter- diction until you exile eternally from the sun my children, and my children's children, and you make peace nothing better than the drowse of poltroons. There is in our midnight a hidden morrow; if we deliberately c...ommit our energies to the task we can, year by year, and stage by stage, remoralize our society. It is that prospect, and not its actual shape, that will rally to it in faith and action the working class. They are realists, and if they see such a purpose honestly pursued, we need have no fear as to the flag of their election. We must also, as it seems to me, be more discriminate in onr alliances. Divide 126 LABOUR AND CIVILIZATION et inipera is a dangerous maxim, and those spokesmen of orthodoxy who regard it as good tactics to exag- gerate every difference of opinion that may chance to arise in the labour camp, to embroil its various parties, and to include them all in one impartial condem- nation, are conspicuously ill-inspired.
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