A Good, Very Good, Not To Say

Social Reform Is Not To Be Secured By Noise And Shouting; By Complaints And Denunciation; By The Formation Of Parties, Or The Making Of Revolutions; But By The Awakening Of Thought And The Progress Of Ideas. Until There Be Correct Thought, There Cannot Be Right Action; And When There Is Correct Thought, Right Action Will Follow.

Whence Shall Come The New Barbarians? Go Through The Squalid Quarters Of Great Cities, And You May See, Even Now, Their Gathering Hordes! How Shall Learning Perish? Men Will Cease To Read, And Books Will Kindle Fires And Be Turned Into Cartridges.

At The Beginning Of This Marvelous Era It Was Natural To Expect, And It Was Expected, That Laborsaving Inventions Would Lighten The Toil And Improve The Condition Of The Laborer; That The Enormous Increase In The Power Of Producing Wealth Would Make Real Poverty A Thing Of The Past... From Progress And Poverty, To Those Who, Seeing The Vice And Misery That Spring From The Unequal Distribution Of Wealth And Privilege, Feel The Possibility Of A Higher Social State And Would Strive For Its Attainment.

In All The New States Of The Union, Land Monopolization Has Gone On At An Alarming Rate, But In None Of Them So Fast As In California, And In None Of Them, Perhaps, Are The Evil Effects So Manifest.

When We Consider That Labor Is The Producer Of All Wealth, Is It Not Evident That The Impoverishment And, Dependence Of Labor Are Abnormal Conditions Resulting From Restrictions And Usurpations, And That Instead Of Accepting Protection, What Labor Should Demand Is Freedom. That Those Who Advocate Any Extension Of Freedom Choose To Go No Further Than Suits Their Own Special Purpose Is No Reason Why Freedom Itself Should Be Distrusted.