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London Lectures of 1907

PART III
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You cannot rise alone.

You are bound too strongly each to each.

If you use your strength to raise yourself by trampling on your fellows, inevitably you will fail by the weakness that you have wronged.
Do you know who are the greatest enemies of a State?
The weak, injured by the strong.

For, above all States, rules an Eternal Justice; and the tears of miserable women, and the curses of angry, starving men, sap the foundations of a State that denies Brotherhood, and reach the ears of that Eternal Justice by which alone States live, and Nations continue.

It is written in an ancient scripture that a Master of Duty said to a King: "Beware the tears of the weak, for they sap the thrones of Kings." Strength may threaten: weakness undermines.
Strength may stand up to fight: weakness cuts away the ground on which the fighters are standing.


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