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The Protection Of The Masses Has In All Times Been The Pretense Of Tyranny - The Plea Of Monarchy, Of Aristocracy, Of Special Privilege Of Every Kind. The Slave Owners Justified Slavery As Protecting The Slaves.

At The Beginning Of This Marvelous Era It Was Natural To Expect, And It Was Expected, That Laborsaving Inventions Would Lighten The Toil And Improve The Condition Of The Laborer; That The Enormous Increase In The Power Of Producing Wealth Would Make Real Poverty A Thing Of The Past... From Progress And Poverty, To Those Who, Seeing The Vice And Misery That Spring From The Unequal Distribution Of Wealth And Privilege, Feel The Possibility Of A Higher Social State And Would Strive For Its Attainment.

As It Becomes More And More Difficult To Get Land, So Will The Virtual Enslavement Of The Laboring-classe S Go On. As The Value Of Land Rises, More And More Of The Earnings Of Labor Will Be Demanded For The Use Of Land, Until Finally Nothing Is Left To Laborers But The Wages Of Slavery -- A Bare Living.

What Has Destroyed Every Previous Civilization Has Been The Tendency To The Unequal Distribution Of Wealth And Power.

The Great Work Of The Present For Every Man, And Every Organization Of Men, Who Would Improve Social Conditions, Is The Work Of Education The Propagation Of Ideas. It Is Only As It Aids This That Anything Else Can Avail. And In This Work Every One Who Can Think May Aid First By Forming Clear Ideas Himself, And Then By Endeavoring To Arouse The Thought Of Those With Whom He Comes In Contact.