Essays and Criticisms, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Essays and Criticisms, Vol. 1 of 2 I know but three modes of living in human society. Every man must either be a beggar, a thief, or a paid State-functionary. The ´man of property´ is but a first-class functionary of the kind. What is commonly spoken of as ´his private fortune´ is really nothing else than the wages paid him by society for distributing to others, through the expenses of his daily life, a large share of his goods.´ These words are not, as might be supposed, the words of some orator of the time when the revolutionary movement was at its zenith. They were spoken by Mirabeau on the 10th of August 1789, and may serve to show how early subversive ideas had gained currency - largely through the philanthropy of those who were the first to suffer from them. The fashionable pessimism of our day might seek to justify itself by appealing to the irony of human life even more than to its absolute pains. There is a deep pathos in evils which result from benevolent actions inspired by what appear to be the best-founded hopes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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