Man, the social creator / by Henry Demarest Lloyd.

  • Henry Demarest Lloyd
Date:
1906
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Man, the social creator / by Henry Demarest Lloyd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    crafty men have conjured, with, it to snare the people. Priests, Kings, Slaveholders, Capitalists, have taken its holy name, and not in vain. They have cried Peace when there was no Peace, Love when there was no Love, because they knew how potent was the mere sound of the words to charm the heart of the multitude always thirsting for love. The depredators used to rob with the tools of hate; now they rob with the tools of love. The professions of love of God so profusely made by the prelacy of the Church of self-interest are in truth denials of their real Lord—the Devil. These men put on the livery of love, not to do its work but to prevent its work from being done. Wesley said he was not going to let the Devil have all the good tunes. Love is too universally human to be left any longer to be monopolised by the Church and the poets. The real love does not mean that the people are to continue at peace with the oppressor and with reconciliation submit to the wrong. Mankind has been called to do so for centuries in the name of love and religion, but it has been a false love, a false religion. Love is the greatest of revolutionists, for its sentiment and its science both teach that the relations between the oppressor and the oppressed run athwart the true line of union, and therefore cannot endure. It taught in the last century that the relation of tyrant and people, in this century that those of capitalist and producer, are not associative, are not friendly, and therefore must come to an end. The labour movement proposes peace, in seeking the conciliation of the diverse multitudes co-operating in fact though not yet in spirit in the business world. The people want peace. There is no people until there is peace. Up to the line of village or nation, within which the inhabitants live in peace, there is a people.
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