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The Political Quarterly Volume 5. Books Group

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Author: Books Group
Number of Pages: 80 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
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ISBN: 9781235255250
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...societies, other ideas. The idea of law and order, when it is roused, is one of the cruellest things irl history. ThinkN of the suppression of the Parisian Commune in 1871. The discredit of the State is a sign that it has done its work well, and is doing its work well. When the judge gets white gloves at assize after assize, we can afford to think of putting up the shutters of the jails. The State will come into credit again, with a rush, at the double, as soon as it is seen to be doing its work badly. In the use of my private income I like to support charity and all manner of good causes. If it comes to a pinch, I have to say to myself, as somebody said to Napoleon, ' It is necessary to live'. In our social life we are swarming hither and thither after associating ideas not only of law and order, but of religion, nation, class. If it comes to a pinch, we shall forget that we are anything but citizens. Through our mouths the State, which is nothing but ourselves organized in an ordered life, will then say to itself, 'It is necessary to live'. And there is no Napoleon to say to the State, 'I do not see the necessity for it'. This paper was written in May 1914. It has been left as it stood, without any but verbal alterations. It is curious to reflect how differently one would have written in January 1915. Germany has shmvn that the sixteenth century has not been altogether overpast--at any rate in her own case. And yet, the fundamental questions remain, and will re-emerge when the waters abate. Meanwhile the State is proclaiming, 'It is necessary to live'. We have forgotten that we are anything but citizens, and the State is having its high midsummer of credit. E. Barker. THE UNITED KINGDOM PARLIAMENT--THE SESSION OF 1914-15 November 11 To 27, 1914, And Janua...

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