The rise, progress, and phases of human slavery: How it came into the world and how it shall be made to go outO'Brien, James Bronterre
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The rise, progress, and phases of human slavery: How it came into the world and how it shall be made to go out
O'Brien, James Bronterre
Labor; Labor movement; Slavery; Social problems; Working class
professors, artists, and able men devoted to the sciences, without
relapsing into barbarism and savagery. But where is the earthly use of
a landlord, as a landlord; of a profitmonger, as a profitmonger? All
the ingenuity in the world could not point out any legitimate use for
these classes. What functions do they perform that could not be better
performed without them than with them, and at less than a hundredth
part of the cost? What business have they in society at all? They have
no lawful business whatever. They are no more a necessary part of the
body politic than are wens, tumours, or ulcers necessary parts of
the natural human body. Their presence in it is only a proof of the
diseased state of the body politic; just as the presence of the others
attests an impure state of the blood or functional disorganization.
They have no more legitimate right to obtrude themselves on society
than a wolf or a tiger has to join and make one of a Christmas party.
They exist only for the impoverishment, corruption, enslavement,
and destruction of the human race. They are the sole authors of all
the calamities known to social existence; and the history of our
race is little else than a harrowing record of their wars, plots,
conspiracies, invasions, massacres, famines, conflagrations, and
atrocities of every sort, to blot the image of God out of man, in order
to turn him into a beast of burden or a beast of prey for their own
use. It is only by just laws on Property that the human race can be
delivered from these two hellish classes; and all reform is a farce
which points not to that paramount object.
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