This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...already. What people say to themselves is this: ' I don't like the thing being done, but I can bear it, maybe--or certainly, when I come to think of it, and to stir in it is such obvious suffering; so I won't stir.' Certainly to take that trouble in any degree it is needful that a man should be touched ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...already. What people say to themselves is this: ' I don't like the thing being done, but I can bear it, maybe--or certainly, when I come to think of it, and to stir in it is such obvious suffering; so I won't stir.' Certainly to take that trouble in any degree it is needful that a man should be touched with a real love of the earth, a worship of it, no less; and I think that as things go, that is seldom felt except by very simple people, and by them, as would be likely, dimly enough. You know the most refined and cultured people, both those of the old religions and those of the new, vague ones, have a sort of Manichean hatred of the world (I use the word in its proper sense, the home of man). Such people must be both the enemies of beauty and the slaves of necessity, and true it is that they lead the world at present, and I believe will do, till all that is old is gone, and history has become a book from which the pictures have been torn. Now if you ask me why I kick against the pricks in this matter, all I can say is, first, because I cannot help it, and secondly, because I am encouraged by a sort of faith that something will come of it, some kind of culture of which we know nothing as present." Notwithstanding his discouragements, Morris persisted in preaching this lesson of the beauty of the earth and of man to the end of his days, and in his feelings toward the earth and man's historic monuments we may find the ground of much of his socialism. The object of the second organization Morris was interested in at the beginning of his active socialism was to prevent the war in the East. Morris was again chosen to write the manifesto for the society, and addressing " the workingmen of England," used these words: " Workingmen of England, one...
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1902, The Bohemia Guild of the Industrial Art League
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1902
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Good. Frontis, 2 plates, 198p. Blue paper-covered boards backed in cloth. 25cm. Modest cover soil and wear. Back endpaper chipping and splitting (and partially reglued) along hinge area. No jacket. An unusual undated small broadside advertisement offering small "bas-reliefs" for purchase from the Bohemia Guild has been glued at its upper left corner to the Dedication page.
