Author : Thomas Ainge Devyr
Release : 2015-07-13
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Our Natural Rights by : Thomas Ainge Devyr
Download or read book Our Natural Rights written by Thomas Ainge Devyr. This book was released on 2015-07-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Natural Rights: A Pamphlet for the People The following Pamphlet was written and published by me about seven years ago - before I had, yet, thrown myself upon the turbid current of public life. The views it contains were drawn from the fount of Nature - and it gives me pride, even at this distant period, that neither the "loyal" doctrines of the Orangemen - nor the sham-patriotism of the "liberals" have polluted a single line of this humble production. It begins by exhibiting the true merits of the British Government - and it proceeds to show the actual position of political affairs in the British Islands. This was, indeed, necessary, because at the time I speak of the mass of the Irish people knew almost nothing of the system that oppressed them. Religious animosities had taken possession of the whole people. The "loyal Orangeman" was rackrented to the point of starvation, yet he cried "to H - with the Pope' and toasted 'the glorious and immortal memory' with as much zeal as if he were not himself as abject a serf as his Catholic fellow countryman. On the other hand the Catholic would shout praise and glory to any lord or Duke - no matter how tyrannical - who called himsef a 'liberal', and subscribed 10 towards building a Chapel out of the ten thousand which his rapacity wrung annually from the famished tillers of the soil. I therefore began with, delineating the actual nature of the Government, and the actual state of parties - an arrangement that will, I think, be found useful in the present edition. But the main object of the pamphlet is to discuss, and define the nature, and true extent, of land Ownership. This is a subject which had received no attention in the British Islands up to the publication of this Tract. The unlimited right of a few hundred individuals to appropriate the entire soil to themselves had never been disputed. Often have I heard the Farmer declare that he would not pay Tithe because he did not receive any value from the Parson, but he did not grudge to pay the landlord, because he "gave him value for his money." 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."
