G K Chesterton

"A drove of cattle came into a village called Swords;and was stopped by the rioters."-Daily Paper.In the place called Swords on the Irish roadIt is told for a new renownHow we held the horns of the cattle, and howWe will hold the horns of the devils nowEre the lord of hell with the horn on his browIs crowned in Dublin town.Light in the East and light in the West, And light on the cruel lords, On the souls that suddenly all men knew, And the green flag flew and the red flag flew, And many a wheel of the world stopped, too, When the cattle were stopped at Swords.Be they sinners or less than saintsThat smite in the street for rage, We know where the shame shines bright; we knowYou that they smite at, you their foe, Lords of the lawless wage and low, This is your lawful wage.You pinched a child to a torture priceThat you dared not name in words;So black a jest was the silver bitThat your own speech shook for the shame of it, And the coward was plain as a cow they hitWhen the cattle have strayed at Swords.The wheel of the torrent of wives went roundTo break men's brotherhood;You gave the good Irish blood to greaseThe clubs of your country's enemies;you saw the brave man beat to the knees: And you saw that it

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Utopia of Usurers

Zeke Taylor

man into himself. This complete and reconstructed man is the nightmare of the modern capitalist. His whole scheme would crack across like a mirror of Shallot,"if oncea plain man were ready for his two plain duties ready to live and ready to die. And that horror of holidays which marks the modern capitalist is very largely a horror of the Vision of a whole human being: something that is not a "hand" or a fhead for figures." But an awful creature who has met himselfin the. wilderness. The employers will give time to cat, time to sleep; they are in terror ofa time to think.

“…doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.”

[The rich Englishman will not believe the actual facts and realities of the French Revolution] because he has no humility, and therefore no realism. He has never been inside himself; and so could never be inside another man.

It is not a flippancy, it is a very sacred truth, to say that when men really understand that they are brothers they instantly begin to fight.

Everybody is in revolt; therefore everybody is telling the truth…It is out of these real differences that real things can be made, such as the modern French democracy. For by such tenacity everyone sees at last that there is something in the other person’s position.

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It will be long before the poison of the Party System is worked out of the body politic.

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For a long time past in our politics there has not only been no real battle, but no real bargain. No two men have bargained [while] each knowing the other to be a power.

[By the tenacity of real difference and disagreement] everyone sees at last that there is something in the other person’s position.

…in real revolutions men discover that no one man can really agree with another man until he has disagreed with him.

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