This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...joy to the myriads or millions of the unfortunate classes, at present bowed down ever more and more by the cumulative burden and despotism of an unlucky or untoward Past. And although this Mosaic legislation had a local object (namely, that of preserving each Tribe in the possession of its own originally ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...joy to the myriads or millions of the unfortunate classes, at present bowed down ever more and more by the cumulative burden and despotism of an unlucky or untoward Past. And although this Mosaic legislation had a local object (namely, that of preserving each Tribe in the possession of its own originally assigned territory) which has utterly disappeared by course of time in Europe, and which has never had a place among the European population of the New World; still, it is well to remember that the social organisation of Christendom, with all its philanthropy and beneficence, does not even yet approach the realisation of some of the most fundamental principles of human conduct enunciated and reiterated by the Founder of Christianity. True, these principles seem to us too exalted to be the basis of Society and national life: yet who can doubt that such lofty dreams or aspirations of human brotherhood, with equality, and the devotion of surplus wealth to the general good--principles embodied honestly and devotedly, albeit in narrow scope, in the Christian communism of the Monks--may yet become realised in secular Society as the world grows older? What is Civilisation, and what ought it to be, but the realisation of Utopias, --the Present and the Future gradually making possible and attainable the aspirations of the Past! To conclude. Under all conditions of existing civilisation, the discovery of rich mines of gold or silver, and a large production and supply of the precious metals, is a most powerful means of augmenting the profitable employment of human labour, with its natural outcome of increased Production, and the diffusion of this produce by means of Trade. The world's stock of useful commoditios available for human wants becomes thereby..
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