Words

“ Formerly, the fewest men wrote books that were most valuable. Now anybody writes and prints anything he likes and poison people’s minds… Formerly, when people wanted to fight with one another, they measured between them their bodily strength; now it is possible to take away thousands of lives… Formerly, men worked in the open air only so much as they liked. Now thousands of workmen meet together and work in factories or mines. Their condition is worst that that of beasts. They are obliged to work, at the risk of their lives, at most dangerous occupations, for the sake of millionaires. Formerly, men were made slaves under physical compulsion, now they are enslaved by the temptation of money and of the luxuries that money can buy… What more need I say? All this you can ascertain… This civilization takes note neither of morality nor of religion… Civilization seeks to increase bodily comforts and it fails miserably even in doing so. ”