- EAN13
- 9782381117980
- Éditeur
- Human and Literature Publishing
- Date de publication
- 26/10/2023
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
Livre numérique
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Aide EAN13 : 9782381117980
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What is the condition of Society under which we live? Is it satisfactory, is
it quite as we should all like it to be? Does it quite please you who are
listening to me, so that there is nothing you want to alter in it?
If that is the case, then none of my hearers are poor, and none have any fear
of becoming poor; I am speaking to a crowd of rich men who are quite sure that
they will always be rich. Well I see that is not quite the case; some of us
are poor, some of us are afraid of becoming poor; some of us have to do very
unpleasant work; all of us have to work more than we like; and we know of
people who are worse off in all these matters than we are: So we do want to
alter things if we could: we are not quite contented: if we say we are, we are
not speaking truly but say so because we don’t ‘want to argue, or because we
want to get something out of rich people whose interest it is that we should
be contented.
Well I should wonder if we were contented; for when we look at the present
state of Society we find that the majority of people have every reason to wish
to be better off than they are, that in point of fact they are living in
misery. Let us look at the various conditions of life and see what portion of
the whole people has good reason to be pleased with their share of the wealth,
ease, good living, in a word, the happiness of this most highly civilized
country.
*[XIXe]: 19e siècle
*[XVIIIe]: 18e siècle
it quite as we should all like it to be? Does it quite please you who are
listening to me, so that there is nothing you want to alter in it?
If that is the case, then none of my hearers are poor, and none have any fear
of becoming poor; I am speaking to a crowd of rich men who are quite sure that
they will always be rich. Well I see that is not quite the case; some of us
are poor, some of us are afraid of becoming poor; some of us have to do very
unpleasant work; all of us have to work more than we like; and we know of
people who are worse off in all these matters than we are: So we do want to
alter things if we could: we are not quite contented: if we say we are, we are
not speaking truly but say so because we don’t ‘want to argue, or because we
want to get something out of rich people whose interest it is that we should
be contented.
Well I should wonder if we were contented; for when we look at the present
state of Society we find that the majority of people have every reason to wish
to be better off than they are, that in point of fact they are living in
misery. Let us look at the various conditions of life and see what portion of
the whole people has good reason to be pleased with their share of the wealth,
ease, good living, in a word, the happiness of this most highly civilized
country.
*[XIXe]: 19e siècle
*[XVIIIe]: 18e siècle
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