Excerpt from The Work of Tagore Hang the last king with the entrails of the last priest. Again and again you see king, priest, and army lined up to resist the prophet armed with threats and the workman armed with a machine. And when a canny workman saves up money enough to buy an army of machines, so that he becomes a sort of king himself, he has to meet the attacks of those who were his fellow workmen. In some such guise does democracy appear from the Greek angle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds ...
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Excerpt from The Work of Tagore Hang the last king with the entrails of the last priest. Again and again you see king, priest, and army lined up to resist the prophet armed with threats and the workman armed with a machine. And when a canny workman saves up money enough to buy an army of machines, so that he becomes a sort of king himself, he has to meet the attacks of those who were his fellow workmen. In some such guise does democracy appear from the Greek angle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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