By Van Wyck Brooks, Arthur Symons, Francis Neilson, Geroid Tanquary Robinson, Albert Jay Nock, Harold Kellock, Alexander Weinstein, B.W. Huebsch, Charles Beard, Daniel Gregory Mason
Certain, that is correct: The Freeman. this is often the unique, as edited by means of Albert Jay Nock within the early Twenties. it truly is radical, far-reaching, topical, and bracing in each means. the following we have now a set of what Nock himself thought of to be the easiest of that magazine, with a number of the articles (probably even part) written through Nock himself.
Don't anticipate something traditional from this quantity. This iteration thought of themselves to be no longer liberals or conservatives yet radicals. Their judgments are usually uncannily clever. occasionally they're reckless. occasionally downright fallacious. yet their writings are consistently interesting.
This ebook could be of serious curiosity to bibliophiles, even though it isn't really a good selection if studying economics is your venture. As a photo in time, as a glimpse into radical opinion among the wars, and as a glance on the heritage of libertarian principles, this ebook is essential.
It is massive, 416 pages actually. there has been no index, yet we additional an outstanding and finished desk of contents, with authors in actual fact famous. All advised, it's a attention-grabbing package deal of ideology, remark, and editorializing on occasions of the day, from 1920 to 1924.
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We are suspicious and pessimistic, incorrigibly so, towards anything of the kind. We see the Irish simply as a body of men and women, probably much like ourselves, and like folks generally, neither better no worse, but who want to be free; and we are unalterably for them, as we are for any similar body of men and women anywhere in the world. What they will do with their freedom is no concern of ours; it is no concern, in our judgment, of anybody. We have no roseate illusions on the subject. If the South ever oppresses Ulster, we shall be for Ulster.
In both cases, the emphasis is on race; but race-difference is a thing that can not be eliminated by any attack that stops short of extermination. G. T. R. 24. v. 22. 舒舒舒舒 WHEN President Hopkins of Dartmouth remarked the other day that 舠too many men are going to college,舡 he might with equal propriety have said that there are too many human beings on the face of the earth. The opportunities offered by our institutions of higher learning are of a piece with the other opportunities of life, and like these other opportunities, they are of course abused by a considerable proportion of the people who enjoy them.
This is evident, for instance, in the case of deposed monarchs, who, if they escape beheading at the hands of their people, are likely to be generously supported by them; as though, through having battened upon their people for so long, they had thereby earned the right to continue to batten upon them. After every revolution a great amount of sympathy is lavished upon the dislodged privilegees who are forced to turn to and earn an honest living. We have lately seen something of this sort of thing in press-dispatches from Paris telling how titled Russians have been forced to become taxi-drivers or to take jobs in dressmakers舗 shops.