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Excerpt from The Worker and His Country
It is astonishing, when one is really intellectually independent, how rapidly what had appeared to be firmly rooted beliefs are discovered to be but an upper growth of prejudices which slip from beneath one's feet and leave one standing on first principles as old as mankind itself. The systems which politicians and the weavers of intellectual theories have built up for the governed and the workers are then often seen to be foreign to the thoughts and instincts of those for whom they have been devised. One perceives two chains of thought, as it were, on to either of which one may link oneself, if in such an inquiry it is necessary to form a contact with the past. On the one hand there is the logical, intellectual development of the theories of the governing; on the other, the illogical, instinctive gathering of force of the revolt of the governed. It is to the latter that one must attach oneself if one is to obtain an insight of any practical value into the tendencies of what is known as the social movement. This I have done, thus departing from my original intention, and in so doing, you will agree, have not chosen the easier task. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
