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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TO THOMAS CARLYLE, Esq. I HAVE before me, in Macmillan's Magazine, your latest contribution to the cause of human welfare; and, being of opinion that it does you no credit, propose to say so here in terms of which so hard a hitter as you would, I am sure, be the last to complain. You seem to me to have come to the usual end of hard hitters from any and every despotic point of view; whose fate it is, unhappy men, from the beginning of time until now, to end by, on the one hand, setting up false idols of some brute type, to be worshipped; and, on the other, stooping to hunt and torture the smallest deer they can find. Roman emperors made ivory temples for horses, and caught flies. You, Mr Carlyle, have set up a shrine for Frederick the Infamous, and taken to persecuting the poor Nigger. Well, I shall take his part. It was difficult, the courtiers used to say, to argue with a rather particular (historic) friend of yours, because hewore such confoundedly thick boots. But this is still a partially free country?in spite of all you have done, following Hobbes, to make it otherwise?and kicking is not always conclusive in the Republic of Letters. See Appendix. In your Occasional Discourse you candidly wrote, I never thought the rights of negroes worth much discussing in any form, nor the rights of men in any form. The grand point is the mights of men, ?what portion of their 'rights' they have a chance of getting sorted out and realised in this confused world. In your last book you repeat this in justifying the robber Frederick's seizure of Silesia: ? Just rights ? What, are rights never so just which you cannot make valid ? The world is full of such. If you have rights, and can assert them into facts, do it; that is worth doing. Nobody knows better than you do that this...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217482202 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217482201 |
| Weight | 0.57 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.39 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 168 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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