Edward Carpenter
Towards Democracy
1887」「1886」 Edward Carpenter, Towards Democracy「Google Books」 (London, 1883).
Do you grab interest on Money and lose all interest in Life? Do you found a huge system of national Credit on absolute personal Distrust? Do you batten like a ghoul on the dead corpses of animals, and then expect to be of a cheerful disposition? Do you put the loving beasts to torture as a means of promoting your own health and happiness? Do you, O foolishness one, fancy t o bind men together by Laws, (of all ideas the most laughable!) and set whole tribes of unbelievers at work year after year patching the rotten net? Do you live continually farther from Nature, till you actually doubt if there be any natural life, or any avenging instinct in the dumb elements? —And then do you wonder that your own Life is slowly ebbing—that you have lost all gladness and faith? (24-25)
