"As for the system of the Commune, which makes it impossible for a man to rise or fall, it is merely the old caste system revived; if it could be put into force, all industry would be disheartened, emulation would cease, and mankind would go to sleep."

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Source : William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.507

William Winwood Reade

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