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Excerpt from Labour's Wrongs and Labour's Remedy, or the Age of Might and the Age of Right Whenever any crisis in the affairs of men is about to take place, there is ever to be found a number of people ready to preach up things as they are. These champions fight stoutly and cunningly against the innovation of existing institutions and modes of acting; and they endeavour to reason the sensible and alarm the timid into remaining quiet, and enduring meekly whatever evils they may be afflicted with. Belonging to one class, and having in view a common object, these alarmists attempt to convince the people that everything is almost as well as it can be - that few evils are endured by them which are not necessary consequences of existence-that their governmental burthens may be alleviated by gradual and imperceptible reforms that the present gradations of society, which cause so much discontentment among the poor and the Oppressed, have always existed, and therefore ever must exist-and that any attempts of the productive classes to better themselves by interfering with this natural arrangement of society, will be attended with the most disastrous results to themselves. 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.