A Brief Inquiry Into The Natural Rights Of Man

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781527695443
Total Pages : 80 pages
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Download or read book A Brief Inquiry Into the Natural Rights of Man, His Duties and Interests written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Brief Inquiry Into the Natural Rights of Man, His Duties and Interests: With an Outline of the Principles, Laws, and Institutions by Which Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity May Be Realized Throughout the World Does it not appear a strange result of the terrible statistics of society, ' says the Times' leader of the 2std May last, that upon the average 1 person out of 20 of the inhabitants of this luxurious metropolis is every day destitute of food and employment, and every night without a place for shelter or repose Not at all stran ge to those who can trace the workings of bad government, land monopoly, usury, and profit-mongezing. And yet the same paper, perhaps the same writer, only a few weeks afterwards, tells us that Every young man in this metropolis, if he will only attend to his business, whatever it is, and keep out of scrapes, is a rising man, and has all the prizes and honours of the nation before him - ii not for himself or his children, at least for hir childrens' children How consolatory to a poor man - say a lav yer's clerk, struggling to exist upon twenty shillings a week be told that he may one day be Lord Chancellor; or, at any rat that one of his descendants may i To be sure, the chances a somewhat against him - perhaps a million to one but then, li is proverbially a lottery! But the ordinary blessings of life oug not, and need not, be made a lottery of. The honest and indu trious ought to be sure of a rational competence. Yet, as socie is now governed, the contrary is generally the case a virtue snfl' 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.