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And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies? exclaimed Dr. Leete. Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?

~ Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy Government Political Utopia War

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

~ Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy Life Meaning Politics

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

~ Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy Change Past Surroundings Time

As for the comparatively small class of violent crimes against persons, unconnected with any idea of gain, they were almost wholly confined, even in your day, to the ignorant and bestial; and in these days, when education and good manners are not the monopoly of a few, but universal, such atrocities are scarcely ever heard of.

~ Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy 19Th Century Crime Hilarious Humor Oh 19Th Century Terrible

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.

~ Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy Barbarism Chaos Civilization

I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.

~ Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy Change Customer Service Library Library Books
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