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Show Vitarsl Inequality of Men. mi men are certainly not born free djual in natural qualities; when they born the predicates "free" and ual" in the political sense are not ap- abie to them, and as they develop, r by year, the differences in the politi-otentialities politi-otentialities with which they really torn become more and more obvious-onterted obvious-onterted into actual differences the liitlity of political faculty shows it-tobe it-tobe a necessary consequence of the tudity of natural faculty. , . it probably true that the earliest men e nomads. But among a body of ?d, wandering savages, though there be no verbally recognized distinc-1 distinc-1 of rank or office, superior strength cunning confer authority Of a more i kind than that secured by act of iwent; there may be no property in 3, but the witless man will be pov-stricken pov-stricken in ideas, the clever man be a capitalist in that same com-iity, com-iity, which in the long run buys all rcomoiodities; one will miss oppor-iiet, oppor-iiet, the others will make them; and isim human equality as loudly as like, Witless will serve his brother, ong an men are men and society is tij, human equality will be a dream; the assumption that it does exist is rain fact as it sets the mark of racticability on every theory of what tit to be which starts from lt.--Pro-ir Huxley in Popular Science. . |