Atheism among the People (Masterpiece Collection) Large Print |
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Author:
| De Lamartine, Alphonse |
Translator:
| Hale, Edward Everett |
ISBN: | 978-1-4929-1477-8 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $12.99 |
Book Description:
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I have often asked myself, "Why am I a Republican?-Why am I the partizan of equitable Democracy, organized and established as a good and strong Government?-Why have I a real love of the People-a love always serious, and sometimes even tender?-What has the People done for me? I was not born in the ranks of the People. I was born between the high Aristocracy and what was then called the inferior classes, in the days when there were classes, where are now equal citizens in various...
More DescriptionI have often asked myself, "Why am I a Republican?-Why am I the partizan of equitable Democracy, organized and established as a good and strong Government?-Why have I a real love of the People-a love always serious, and sometimes even tender?-What has the People done for me? I was not born in the ranks of the People. I was born between the high Aristocracy and what was then called the inferior classes, in the days when there were classes, where are now equal citizens in various callings. I never starved in the People's famine; I never groaned, personally, in the People's miseries; I never sweat with its sweat; I was never benumbed with its cold. Why then, I repeat it, do I hunger in its hunger, thirst with its thirst, warm under its sun, freeze under its cold, grieve under its sorrows? Why should I not care for it as little as for that which passes at the antipodes?-turn away my eyes, close my ears, think of other things, and wrap myself up in that soft, thick garment of indifference and egotism, in which I can shelter myself, and indulge my separate personal tastes, without asking whether, below me,-in street, garret, or cottage, there is a rich People, or a beggar People; a religious People, or an atheistic People; a People of idlers, or of workers; a People of Helots, or of citizens?"