Author : Thomas Carl Spelling
Release : 2015-06-25
Genre : Reference
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Political Deceptions and Delusions by : Thomas Carl Spelling
Download or read book Political Deceptions and Delusions written by Thomas Carl Spelling. This book was released on 2015-06-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Political Deceptions and Delusions To write a preface for one's own mental product is like introducing one's self to a strange audience. If it give the work a good send off, it performs the office of an advertisement; if it speak of the merits of the work with undue modesty, it is of no practical value, and the time taken to write, as well as that taken to read it, is wasted. In our day a vast amount of fraud is practiced in every line of human activity. Clothes are made to sell, with little regard to their wearing qualities. Great factories are occupied by manufacturers of snide jewelry, which is advertised as so many carats solid gold. Makers of surgical appliances, like jackals pursuing a wounded horse, are on the trails of cripples, anxious to extort from them the last dollar, for contrivances at exhorbitant prices which soon break or fail to answer the purpose as advertised. Quacks prey on the sick and invalided by similar methods. People in cities, especially the poorer classes, are drained of their earnings in high prices for stale or non-nutritious foods, and poisoned with adulterated drugs. But the most dangerous and harmful of all the cheats and imposters are self-serving politicians and bogus statesmen. 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.