Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Some Causes of the Prevailing Discontent

Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900· 2 chapters· 6,274 words

The Declaration of Independence opens with the statement of a great and fruitful political truth. But if it had said:--"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created unequal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among...

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1. Chapter 1

The Declaration of Independence opens with the statement of a great and fruitful political truth. But if it had said:--"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are...

2. Chapter 2

Discontent, then, arises from absurd notions of equality, from natural conditions of inequality, from false notions of education, and from the very patent fact, in this age, tha...