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- Author: Thomas Paine
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2016
- Pages: 26
- ISBN-10: 1534742050
- ISBN-13: 9781534742055
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.1 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Agrarian Justice by Thomas Paine Agrarian Justice To preserve the benefits of what is called civilized life, and to remedy at the same time the evil which it has produced, ought to be considered as one of the first objects of reformed legislation. Whether that state that is proudly, perhaps erroneously, called civilization, has most promoted or most injured the general happiness of man is a question that may be strongly contested. On one side, the spectator is dazzled by splendid appearances; on the other, he is shocked by extremes of wretchedness; both of which it has erected. The most affluent and the most miserable of the human race are to be found in the countries that are called civilized. To understand what the state of society ought to be, it is necessary to have some idea of the natural and primitive state of man; such as it isat this day among the Indians of North America. There is not, in that state, any of those spectacles of human misery which poverty and want present to our eyes in all the towns and streets in Europe.
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- Author: Thomas Paine
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2016
- Pages: 26
- ISBN-10: 1534742050
- ISBN-13: 9781534742055
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.1 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Agrarian Justice by Thomas Paine Agrarian Justice To preserve the benefits of what is called civilized life, and to remedy at the same time the evil which it has produced, ought to be considered as one of the first objects of reformed legislation. Whether that state that is proudly, perhaps erroneously, called civilization, has most promoted or most injured the general happiness of man is a question that may be strongly contested. On one side, the spectator is dazzled by splendid appearances; on the other, he is shocked by extremes of wretchedness; both of which it has erected. The most affluent and the most miserable of the human race are to be found in the countries that are called civilized. To understand what the state of society ought to be, it is necessary to have some idea of the natural and primitive state of man; such as it isat this day among the Indians of North America. There is not, in that state, any of those spectacles of human misery which poverty and want present to our eyes in all the towns and streets in Europe.
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