Soul of Man
Author: first_name: Oscar
last_name: Wilde
Language: English
Year: 1891

“(T)he past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.”<br/><br/>

Published originally as “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” this is not so much a work of sober political analysis; rather it can be summed up as a rhapsodic manifesto on behalf of the Individual. Socialism having deployed technology to liberate the whole of humanity from soul-destroying labour, the State obligingly withers away to allow the free development of a joyf