8. They are corrupt. They rot above ground;
their heart and life are depraved. And speak wickedly concerning oppression.
The reek of the sepulchre rises through their mouths; the nature of the soul is
revealed in the speech. They choose oppression as their subject, and they not
only defend it, but advocate it, glory in it, and would make it the general
rule among all nations. “Who are
the poor? What are they made for but to toil and slave that men of education
may enjoy themselves?” There
is still too much of this wicked talk, and although the working classes have
their faults, yet theirs is a race of men who habitually speak of them as if
they were an inferior order of animals. They speak loftily. Big talk
streams from them, their language is colossal, their magniloquence ridiculous.
They expect all the world to stand in awe of them.
PREVIOUS
NEXT
No comments:
Post a Comment