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A man who lived for truth, and truth alone—
Brave as the bravest—generous as brave;
A man whose heart was rent by every moan
That burst from every trodden, tortured slave;
A man prepared to fight, prepared to die,
To lighten, banish, human misery.
The mighty scorned him, vilified, oppressed;
The bitter cup of poverty and pain
Forced him to drink. He was misfortune’s guest
Through weary, weary years; his anguish’d brain
Shed tears of pity—wrath—for Mankind’s woe;
For his own sorrows tears could never flow.
He loved the people with a brother’s love;
He hated tyrants with a tyrant’s hate.
He turned from kings below, to God above—
The King of kings, who smites the wicked great.
The shame, the scourge, the terror of their race,
Those demons in earth’s holy dwelling-place.
Thou noble soul!—around thee gathered those
Who, poor and trampled patriots, were like thee.
Thou art not dead!—thy martyred spirit glows
In us, a band devoted of the free;
We best can celebrate thy natal day,
By virtues, valours, such as marked thy way.
WILLIAM MACCALL.

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THE

RISE, PROGRESS, AND PHASES

OF

HUMAN SLAVERY:

HOW IT CAME INTO THE WORLD,
AND HOW IT SHALL BE MADE TO GO OUT.

BY

JAMES BRONTERRE O’BRIEN.

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LONDON:
WILLIAM REEVES, 185, FLEET STREET, E.C.
G. Standring, 8 and 9, Finsbury Street;
Martin Boon, 170, Farringdon Road, W.C.
South Africa: Hay Bros., Wholesale Agents, King William’s Town.
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1885

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TO THE PEOPLE!

This little Work, by an eloquent denunciator of the manifold evils ofProfitmongering and Landlordism, whose entire life was devoted to theadvocacy of Social Rights, as distinguished from Socialistic theories,is now given to the world for the first time in a complete form.

The Author, in his lifetime, was frustrated in his design of finishinghis History through the ceaseless machinations of working-classexploiters and landlords. This has been at length achieved by the aidof his various writings preserved in print. The object steadily kept inview has been to give the ipsissima verba of the Author, so that noforeign pen may garble or mislead.

In order to provide room for so much additional matter as was essentialto the elucidation of the great reforms needed in the subjects of LandNationalisation, Credit, Currency, and Exchange, it has been foundexpedient to omit from this edition some disquisitions on subjects ofephemeral and passing interest, not close

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