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| Title | The state, its historic role, 5th edition |
| Series Title | Freedom pamphlet |
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| Publisher | Freedom Press |
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| Date | 1920 |
| Subject.Topical (Local) |
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| Language | English; French |
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| Original Item Extent | 42 pages; 18 cm. |
| Original Item Location | JC268.K72 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304434~S11 |
| Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
| Use and Reproduction | This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
| Note | Translation of L'état, son role historique. |
| File Name | index.cpd |
| Title | Image 18 |
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| Transcript | 18 The State: Its Historic RSle. England and a great number of writers have done it for Germany,— and we see that the work of the artisan, and even of a simple day-labourer, was remunerated at the time by a wage not even reached by skilled workmen nowadays. The account-books of the University of Oxford and certain English estates, also those of a great number of German and Swiss towns are there to testify to it. On the other hand, consider the artistic finish and the quantity of decorative work which a workman of those days used to put into the beautiful work of art he did. as well as in the simplest thing of domestic life,—a railing, a candelstick, an article of pottery—and you see at once that he did not know the pressure, the hurry, the overwork of our times; he could forge, sculpture, weave, embroider at his leisure— as but a very small number of artist-workers can do nowadays. And if we glance over the donations to the churches and to houses which belonged to the parish, to the guild or to the city, be it in works of art-- m decorative panels, sculptures, cast or wrought iron and even silver works-or in simple mason's or carpenter's work, we understand what degree of well-being those cities had realized in their midst. We can onZ^v ♦ L? ?!f'rCl1 aD? inVention that Prevailed, the breath of liberty that inspired their works, the sentiment of fraternal solidari- not on / nT rt gU1 ^ m ^ich men 0f a same <*** ^re united, not only b> the mercantile and technical side of a trade but also by bonds of stability and fraternity. Was it not, in fact, the gun d law that two brothers were to watch at the bedside of every sick brothel or that the guid would take care of burying the dead brXer or stter —a custom which ca led for devotion in tWo ?• Dro™er or sistei eases nnrl nWnOC f,oi„ I. °™°n> m th°se times of contagious diseases and plagues,—follow him to the ptovp «t,j t_k.. c i?- -j and children ? g ' nd take care of hls widow Black misery, depression, the uncertainty of to-morrow for the neater number, which character ze our modern citW ™L i. T V , 8™**** in those " oases sprung up in thettJhl?* I ? ab1folutely unknown feudal forest." In those rities 21 T^l7,™ the middle °f the acquired under the impuTseTfr'ee agt^t and W £•£? ^tT new civilization grew up and attaint^f™ and f.ree initiative, a whole not been seen up till now SUCh exPansi™> that the like has All modern industry comes to nn f™™ +1, ries,industries and arts developedTth/rTf t "^ In three centu' tury has been able to surpX tht J?n°, *"•h Perfftion tna* our cen- but rarely in quality, anfX „^v\ i? ? "T^ °f P^^tion, higher arts which we try Z£ " ^^ the Produce- In the the beauty of Raphael ? the vigour and ™1 •*" I'J*?* We 8urPassed science and art of Leonardo da Vinci ? it ^ °! Mlchel An^° ? the Dante ? or the architecture to which '« V°^y and language of wmch we °-e the cathedrals of Laon, |