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Excerpt from Gillette's Social Redemption Are there no slaves to-day? While we sit here at play, Have we no brothers in adversity? None sorry nor oppressed, who without hope or rest Must toil and have no pleasure in their toil? These are your slaves and mine. Where is the right divine Of idlers to encumber God's good soil? There is no man alive, however he may strive, Allowed to own the work of his own hands. Landlords and water lords at all the roads and fords, Taking their toll, imposing their commands. Bliss Carman. Grimly the same spirit looks into the law of Property, and accuses menofdriving a trade in the great boundless Providence whichhad given the air, the water, and the land to men to use and not to fence in and monopolise. - ("The Times.") I cannot occupy the bleakest crag of the White Hills or the Allegheny Range, but some man or corporation steps up to me to show me that it is his. - ("The Conservative.") Touch any wood, or field, or house lot on your peril; but you may come and work in ours for us, and we will give you a piece of bread. - ("The Conservative.") Of course, whilst another man has no land, my title to mine, your title to yours, is at once vitiated. - ("Man the Reformer.") Ralph Waldo Emerson. "What are you reading, son?" asked a Roman merchant one day. "A description from one of the Sybilline books," he replied. "It is there foretold that an invasion from the North will come upon our empire, when it becomes corrupt, and some say it is so now." "Drop it, my son, drop it," said the old gentleman, hastily. "These people are always foreseeing something, generally unpleasant. Why, we are getting richer and richer, and our boundaries are extending in every direction. Every day I meet a king or two at dinner." "But there are barbarians, are there not?" "Oh, yes, a few million or so, who shake to see the sunshine on our Roman eagles." The son closed the book with a troubled expression. "Suppose they should - " he murmured. And they did. - "An Optimist" in The Denver Catholic. 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.