Essays: First seriesH. Altemus, 1895 - 322 pages |
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Page 47
... Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members . Society is a joint - stock company in which the members agree for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder , to surrender the liberty and ...
... Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members . Society is a joint - stock company in which the members agree for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder , to surrender the liberty and ...
Page 76
... society , and no man improves . Society never advances . It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other . Its progress is only apparent , like the workers of a treadmill . It under- goes continual changes : it is barbarous , it ...
... society , and no man improves . Society never advances . It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other . Its progress is only apparent , like the workers of a treadmill . It under- goes continual changes : it is barbarous , it ...
Page 127
... society , is that condition and society whose poetry is not yet written , but which you shall presently make as enviable and re- nowned as any . Accept your genius , and say what you think . In our estimates , let us take a lesson from ...
... society , is that condition and society whose poetry is not yet written , but which you shall presently make as enviable and re- nowned as any . Accept your genius , and say what you think . In our estimates , let us take a lesson from ...
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