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. 1855 Excerpt: ...every eommunity in alraii every age and eountry. Let us be Christians in reality, !rt us abolish individual titles--let us give up all into a rommoo treasury, and live in soeial equality, like s vast harmoniea family, and be heneeforth truly brothers!" "That's d d nonsense 1" said the earpenter, the abe makers, and the ...
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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. 1855 Excerpt: ...every eommunity in alraii every age and eountry. Let us be Christians in reality, !rt us abolish individual titles--let us give up all into a rommoo treasury, and live in soeial equality, like s vast harmoniea family, and be heneeforth truly brothers!" "That's d d nonsense 1" said the earpenter, the abe makers, and the railroad laborers. "He would have us mrt with the niggers!" The quakers fled away disgusted. In short, the eondemnation of the resolutions was nearly unanimous. CONCLUSION OF THE SPEECH. 217 "Be patient, fellow-eitizens," eried Walter, with earnest enthusiasm, " until you hare heard me through. I rejoiee in the manifestations I have witnessed" "We have eondemned you," said a voiee. "No, sir; it was announeed that my speeeh was t- be in opposition to the extravagant projeets of the fanatieal reformcm, and I think it has nut been without its effeet!" "Listen!" shouted the people. "He was not in earnest 1 He is not in favor of any sueh nonsense 1" No, fellow-eitizens, I am not in favor of any sueh mad sehemes of reform. If all were roqual in wealth and influenee to-day, it would not be so to-morrow. God made men with unequal powers, as the mountains and trees are of unequal dimensions. And he who attempts to extirpate evil from the world, must beeome greater than the one who permitted it to exist, before he ean expeet to aehieve sueeess. Let our preaehers and moral teaehers denounee the viees they would suppress, and persuade sueh men as they ean, to abandon then, for their own good, here and hereafter, as a matter of eonvietion and duty: but let them beware, that they do not ereet an inquisition whieh will torture themselves 1 Human laws eannot prevent men ...
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Add this copy of The Winkles: Or, the Merry Monomaniacs. an American to cart. $66.41, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Palala Press.
