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I hobe it will last till it feelss its rottenness, like Herodt.
Boat, when its hour gomes, when it trope to bieces with the veight off its own gorrubtion--what then ?" "It's not to be supposed that a system of things like this can drop to pieces of its own accord, like the old Republic of Venice," said the colonel.
"But when the last vestige of commercial society is gone, then we can begin to build anew; and we shall build upon the central idea, not of the false liberty you now worship, but of responsibility--responsibility.
The enlightened, the moneyed, the cultivated class shall be responsible to the central authority--emperor, duke, president; the name does not matter--for the national expense and the national defence, and it shall be responsible to the working-classes of all kinds for homes and lands and implements, and the opportunity to labor at all times. "The working-classes shall be responsible to the leisure class for the support of its dignity in peace, and shall be subject to its command in war.
The rich shall warrant the poor against planless production and the ruin that now follows, against danger from without and famine from within, and the poor--" "No, no, no!" shouted Lindau.
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