This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...and I wept bitterly over the unhappy city, the city of freedom, of inspiration and of martyrdom, the saviour-city which has already suffered so much for the temporal deliverance of humanity. 1 The reader will excuse the remark that nine-tenths of all which constituted the external horrors of the cholera or ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...and I wept bitterly over the unhappy city, the city of freedom, of inspiration and of martyrdom, the saviour-city which has already suffered so much for the temporal deliverance of humanity. 1 The reader will excuse the remark that nine-tenths of all which constituted the external horrors of the cholera or other great pestilences would have been avoided by the very simple process of cremation. It is said that even within a very few years, in breaking up the ground where great numbers of victims of cholera or yellow fever were long since buried, the most deadly forms of disease or malaria have been developed, which could not assuredly have taken place had the remains been reduced to ashes. When I, in 1856, published an article advocating the burning of the dead, I was literally alone in my ideas. Eppm-si mnovr.--Translator. Appendix to Letter VI.1 " Seest thou the foundations of usury, of theft and robbery, are our great men and lords, who take all creatures unto their possession: the fish in the waters, the birds in the air, all that groweth on the earth must be theirs (Jes. v.). Therefore they send forth God's commandment among the poor and say, ' God hath commanded that ye shall not steal!' yet it serves them naught. So they all bring it to pass that from the poor ploughman. workman, and all which lives. they pluck off their skin from them and the flesh from off their bones Micah iii. 3. And should he then lay violent hands on what is holiest, he must hang. Then saith Doctor Liar, ' Amen!' The great men are themselves the cause that the poor man is their enemy. If they will not do away with the cause of strife. how can it go well in the long-run? And if I, saying that, am rebellious and a stirrer-up of strife, so let it be!" 1 This Appendix or...
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Add this copy of Works, Volume 7 to cart. $64.71, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Nabu Press.
