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# The Rugged Pyrrhus

THE RUGGED Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms, Black as his purpose, did the night resemble When he lay couched in the ominous horse, Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd With heraldry more dismal; head to foot Now is he total gules; horridly trick'd With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, Baked and impasted with the parching streets, That lend a tyrannous and damned light To their lord's murder: roasted in wrath and fire, And thus o'er-sized with coagulate gore, With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus Old grandsire Priam seeks. Anon he finds him Striking too short at Greeks; his antique sword, Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls, Repugnant to command: unequal match'd, Pyrrhus at Priam drives; in rage strikes wide; But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword The unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium, Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top Stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash Takes prisoner Pyrrhus' ear: for, lo! his sword, Which was declining on the milky head Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick: So, as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood, And like a neutral to his will and matter, Did nothing.
But, as we often see, against some storm, A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still, The bold winds speechless and the orb below As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder Doth rend the region, so, after Pyrrhus' pause, Aroused vengeance sets him new a-work; And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall On Mars's armour forged for proof eterne With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding sword Now falls on Priam.
Out, out, thou strumpet, Fortune! All you gods, In general synod, take away her power; Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven, As low as to the fiends!
But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe, About her lank and all o'er-teemed loins, A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up; Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steep'd, 'Gainst Fortune's state would treason have pronounced:
But if the gods themselves did see her then When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs, The instant burst of clamour that she made, Unless things mortal move them not at all, Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven, And passion in the gods!
# The Ruin of the Ancient Civilization and the Triumph of Christianity

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| | Contents |
| | Foreword |
| I | The Internal Decomposition |
| II | The Crisis of the Third Century |
| III | Diocletian and the Reform of the Empire |
| IV | Constantine and the Triumph of Christianity |
| V | In the Third and Twentieth Centuries |
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# The Ruined Cottage

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* "The Ruined Cottage", a poem by Robert Southey
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# The Ruined Cottage (Landon)

* "The Ruined Cottage", in 'Forget Me Not' magazine (1824)
* "The Ruined Cottage", in The Sentimental Reciter (1856)
# The Ruin of the Ancient Civilization and the Triumph of Christianity/Foreword

Translated by Lady Whitehead (1921)
FOREWORD
Signor Ferrero has given us one more arresting work on the subject which he has made his life study. Though his reputation is already world-wide amongst scholars and thinkers, I should like to be allowed to say one word to that large and ever-increasing number of men and women on both sides of the Atlantic who are not classical scholars or students of history and who, living as many of them do isolated by circumstances, whether in the depths of the country or in crowded cities, have no kindred spirits with whom they can discuss the thoughts that surge up in their minds. In Signor Ferrero's pages they will find many of the data for which they have unconsciously been searching, cleverly sketched for them by a master hand, and stirring parallels drawn between the third century and their own. The world is realizing that the great treasures of its magnificent heritage are in danger of being swept from it in the whirlpool of unrest which has followed the awful calamity that recently threatened its very existence, and men and women of every class are asking themselves what they can do to avert disaster. Signor Ferrero does not pretend to answer that question, but, by restating the history of the past in modern terms to a generation which has forgotten or has never read Gibbon, he has given the priceless aid of clear knowledge to the citizens whose views constitute the public opinion of the present, and upon whose right thinking the whole future of civilization depends.
E. W.
# The Poetical Works of John Keats/Otho the Great. A Tragedy/Act 3 Scene 2

Scene II.—An Apartment in the Castle.
[Enter as from the Marriage, Otho, Ludolph, Auranthe, Conrad Nobles, Knights, Ladies, &c., &c., &c. Music.
# The Poetical Works of John Keats/Otho the Great. A Tragedy/Act 4 Scene 1

ACT IV.
Scene I. — Auranthe's Apartment.
Auranthe and Conrad discovered.
# The Poetical Works of John Keats/Otho the Great. A Tragedy/Act 3 Scene 1

ACT III.
Scene I.—The Country.
# The Poetical Works of John Keats/Otho the Great. A Tragedy/Act 4 Scene 2

Scene II.—An Apartment in the Castle.
Enter Ludolph and Page.
# The Poetical Works of John Keats/Otho the Great. A Tragedy/Act 5 Scene 1

ACT V.
Scene I.—A part of the Forest.
Enter Conrad and Auranthe.
# The Poetical Works of John Keats/Otho the Great. A Tragedy/Act 5 Scene 5

THE CURTAIN FALLS.
# The Poetical Works of John Keats/Song

SONG.
I.
Where be you going, you Devon maid?
And what have ye there in the basket?
Ye tight little fairy, just fresh from the dairy,
Will ye give me some cream if I ask it?
II.
I love your hills and I love your dales,
And I love your flocks a-bleating;
But oh, on the heather to lie together,
With both our hearts a-beating!
III.
I'll put your basket all safe in a nook;
Your shawl I'll hang on a willow;
And we will sigh in the daisy's eye,
And kiss on a grass-green pillow.
# The Poetical Works of John Keats/Otho the Great. A Tragedy/Act 5 Scene 4

Scene IV. A Cabinet opening towards a Terrace.
Otho, Erminia, Ethelbert, and a Physician discovered.
# The Qur'an (Palmer)/Adiyat

The Chapter of the Chargers.
(Ⅽ. Mecca.)
In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
By the snorting chargers !
And those who strike fire with their hoofs !
And those who make incursions in the morning,
And raise up dust therein,
$^5$ And cleave through a host therein !
Verily, man is to his Lord ungrateful ; and, verily, he is a witness of that.
Verily, he is keen in his love of good.
Does he not know when the tombs are exposed,
$^{10}$ and what is in the breasts is brought to light ?
Verily, thy Lord upon that day indeed is well aware.
# The Qur'an (Palmer)/Alaq

The Chapter of Congealed Blood.
(ⅩⅭⅥ. Mecca.)
In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
Read, in the name of thy Lord!
Who created man from congealed blood!
Read, for thy Lord is most generous!
$^5$ Who taught the pen!
Taught man what he did not know!
Nay, verily, man is indeed outrageous at seeing himself get rich!
Verily, unto thy Lord is the return!
Hast thou considered him who forbids $^{10}$ a servant when he prays?
​Hast thou considered if he were in guidance or bade piety?
Hast thou considered if he said it was a lie, and turned his back?
Did he not know that God can see?
$^{15}$ Nay, surely, if he do not desist we will drag him by the forelock!—the lying sinful forelock!
So let him call his counsel: we will call the guards of hell!
Nay, obey him not, but adore and draw nigh!
* ↑ The five opening verses of the chapter are generally allowed to have been the first that were revealed. See Introduction, p. ⅹⅹ, and note 1, idem.
* ↑ I. e. Mohammed.
* ↑ The allusion is to Abu Gahl, who threatened to set his foot on Mohammed’s neck if he caught him in the act of adoration.
# The Qur'an (Palmer)/Asr

The Chapter of the Afternoon.
(ⅭⅢ. Mecca.)
In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
By the afternoon ! verily, man is in loss ! save ​those who believe and do right, and bid each other be true, and bid each other be patient.
# The North Star (Rochester)/1847/12/03/Other advertisements

​WILLIAM B. LOGAN, Dealer in Fashionable Boots and Shoes, 80, Purchase Street, New Bedford.
W. B. L. keeps constantly on hand a good assortment, and will sell cheap for cash. Strict attention paid to custom-made work, by Messrs. Parker and Davis.
WASHINGTON'S Daguerrian Gallery, 138, Main Street, Kellog's Buildings, Harford, Connecticut.
# The North Star (Rochester)/1847/12/03/Perilous run-off

PERILOUS RUN-OFF.
Quite an excitement in the neighborhood of the Bridge on Buffalo Street, was created on Monday afternoon, by the running off of a horse—a buggy being attached, and a boy driving. The animal took fright, running off Buffalo Street into an alley in the rear of the machine mills adjoining the bridge, turning into a small alley which leads into the river, plunging full force into the water, when horse, buggy, and boy were washed by the threatening current of the dashing Genesee down the stream. Having presence of mind, the boy caught the pier or base of the butment as he passed, and holding on, was thus snatched from a watery grave.
# The North Star (Rochester)/1847/12/03/North Star

NORTH STAR.
Of all the stars is this "brave old, overhanging sky," the North Star is our choice. To thousands now free in the British dominions it has been the Star or Freedom. To millions, now in our boasted land of liberty, it is the Star or Hope. Dark clouds may conceal, but cannot destroy it. Tempests may toss the sea—earthquakes convulse the globe—and storm-bolts shake the sky—it stands as firm as Heaven. Within its meek and twinkling rays, are Faith, Hope and Freedom—cherishing the one, indulging the other, and endeavoring to gain the last for our slavery smitten countrymen.
We have ventured to call our humble sheet by our favorite Star. We have been requested to change it, but as yet see no good reason for doing so. The Morning Star was suggested; the Evening Star has been named,—but the one is too early, and the other too late. The Midnight Star is our election. We are over-shadowed by gloomy clouds, and on a dark and perilous sea. We need the Polar Light to guide us into port.
# The North Star (Rochester)/1847/12/03/Post and Willis

​Post and Willis, Dealers in Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Dye Stuffs, Paints, Varnish, Oils, Classware, Brushes, Perfumery, Daguerreotype, Stock, French and German Chemicals, Artists' Colors, Brushes and Canvass, Etherial Oil, Gold Leaf and Foil, &c. &c.
Being Agents for most of the celebrated Family and valuable Patent Medicines, and receiving the same directly from the Manufacturers or their Agents, they are enabled to supply all orders at wholesale and retail, on the most favorable terms.
Homœopathic Books, Medicines, and Family Cases, with full directions. Only agents for Western New York.
Also, Sherwood's Vibratory Magnetic Machines, with directions.
Phosgene Gas; also Etherial Oil and Lamps, for burning the same. Those who would consult economy and convenience are invited to examine these Lamps. The attention of Country Merchants, Physicians, Families, and others, wishing goods in the above line, is requested at the APOTHECARIES' HALL, 4, Exchange Street.
# The North Star (Rochester)/1847/12/03/Report of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society

​☞ We have before us, through the kindness of Mr. Harned, of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Office, New York, the able and elaborate Report of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. The Report is well stored with important facts, and indicates great vigilance and application on the part of the Committee and Agents of that Society.
# The North Star (Rochester)/1847/12/03/Notice of the Western New York Anti-Slavery Society

​☞ Read and attend to the notice of the Western New York Anti-Slavery Society.
Let the Meeting be a general rally of the anti-slavery friends throughout Western New York.
Now, while Slavery is gathering her tens of thousands, to fight a base and fiend-like war; while the treasure of the professed freemen of the north is pouring out by millions, to give vigor to the bloody struggle; while the voice is going forth from pulpit and press, that "our country, right or wrong, must be supported;" while the press is teeming with praises of the leaders of Slavery's legions, who are now pursuing a career of robbery and wrong in Mexico; while the Mexican can truly say,—
Hearken! up the Rio Bravo comes the negro-catcher's shout; Listen! 'tis the Yankee's hammer forging human fetters out;—
it is indeed a time when the friends of freedom should come together, filled with zeal for the holy cause, and raise a voice of warning and rebuke.
The corrupt political parties are shaking and trembling before the anti-slavery agitation; the time-serving church, with not enough of inherent virtue to be first pure and then peaceable, is vainly seeking for peace which it can never gain in its false and miserable position. If we will but persevere to the end, victory is ours. Let us then gather by thousands, not to build up a political party or nominate candidates for political office, but to stir up each other's minds to remembrance of the captive,—to listen to the voices of the true-hearted, and to arm ourselves anew from Heaven's own armory with the weapons of Truth and Love.—S.
# The Production of Security/11

NOTE
Gustave de Molinari (March 3, 1819–January 28, 1912) was a Belgian-born economist associated with the French "économistes," a group of laissez-faire liberals. Throughout his life, Molinari defended peace, free trade, freedom of speech, freedom of association, and liberty in all its forms. He was the originator of the theory of Market Anarchism.
# The Production of Security/4

The Alternatives
It thus has been demonstrated a priori, to those of us who have faith in the principles of economic science, that the exception indicated above is not justified, and that the production of security, like anything else, should be subject to the law of free competition.
Once we have acquired this conviction, what remains for us to do? It remains for us to investigate how it has come about that the production of security has not been subjected to the law of free competition, but rather has been subjected to different principles.
What are those principles?
Those of monopoly and communism.
In the entire world, there is not a single establishment of the security industry ​that is not based on monopoly or on communism.
In this connection, we add, in passing, a simple remark.
Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism in the various branches of human activity, wherever it has found them. Is it not then strange and unreasonable that it accepts them in the security industry?
# The Production of Security/0

The Production of Security
Gustave de Molinari
There are two ways of considering society. According to some, the development of human associations is not subject to providential, unchangeable laws. Rather, these associations, having originally been organized in a purely artificial manner by primeval ​legislators, can later be modified or remade by other legislators, in step with the progress of social science. In this system the government plays a preeminent role, because it is upon it, the custodian of the principle of authority, that the daily task of modifying and remaking society devolves.
According to others, on the contrary, society is a purely natural fact. Like the earth on which it stands, society moves in accordance with general, preexisting laws. In this system, there is no such thing, strictly speaking, as social science; there is only economic science, which studies the natural organism of society and shows how this organism functions.
We propose to examine, within the latter system, the function and natural organization of government.
# The Production of Security/3

Security an Exception?
We are consequently led to ask ourselves whether his exception is well founded, in the eyes of the economist.
It offends reason to believe that a well-established natural law can admit of exceptions. A natural law must hold everywhere and always, or be invalid. I cannot believe, for example, that the universal law of gravitation, which governs the physical world, is ever suspended in any instance or at any point of the universe. Now I consider economic laws comparable to natural laws, and I have just as much faith in the principle of the division of labor as I have in the universal law of gravitation. I believe that while these principles can be disturbed, they admit of no exceptions.
​But, if this is the case, the production of security should not be removed from the jurisdiction of free competition; and if it is removed, society as a whole suffers a loss.
Either this is logical and true, or else the principles on which economic science is based are invalid.
# The Production of Security/5

Monopoly and Communism
Let us now examine how it is that all known governments have either been subjected to the law of monopoly, or else organized according to the communistic principle.
First let us investigate what is understood by the words monopoly and communism.
It is an observable truth that the more urgent and necessary are man's needs, the greater will be the sacrifices he will be willing to endure in order to satisfy them. Now, there are some things that are found abundantly in nature, and whose production does not require a great expenditure of labor, but which, since they satisfy these urgent and necessary wants, can consequently acquire an exchange value ​all out of proportion with their natural value. Take salt for example. Suppose that a man or a group of men succeed in having the exclusive production and sale of salt assigned to themselves. It is apparent that this man or group could raise the price of this commodity well above its value, well above the price it would have under a regime of free competition.
One will then say that this man or this group possesses a monopoly, and that the price of salt is a monopoly price.
But it is obvious that the consumers will not consent freely to paying the abusive monopoly surtax. It will be necessary to compel them to pay it, and in order to compel them, the employment of force will be necessary.
Every monopoly necessarily rests on force.
When the monopolists are no longer as strong as the consumers they exploit, what happens?
​In every instance, the monopoly finally disappears either violently or as the outcome of an amicable transaction. What is it replaced with?
If the roused and insurgent consumers secure the means of production of the salt industry, in all probability they will confiscate this industry for their own profit, and their first thought will be, not to relegate it to free competition, but rather to exploit it, in common, for their own account. They will then name a director or a directive committee to operate the saltworks, to whom they will allocate the funds necessary to defray the costs of salt production. Then, since the experience of the past will have made them suspicious and distrustful, since they will be afraid that the director named by them will seize production for his own benefit, and simply reconstitute by open or hidden means the old monopoly for his own profit, they will elect delegates, representatives entrusted with appropriating the funds ​necessary for production, with watching over their use, and with making sure that the salt produced is equally distributed to those entitled to it. The production of salt will be organized in this manner.
This form of the organization of production has been named communism.
When this organization is applied to a single commodity, the communism is said to be partial.
When it is applied to all commodities, the communism is said to be complete.
But whether communism is partial or complete, political economy is no more tolerant of it than it is of monopoly, of which it is merely an extension.
# The Production of Security

Originally published in French as « De la production de la sécurité » in Journal des économistes 22, no. 95 (Paris: Chez Guillaumin et c$^e$, 15 February 1849), pp. 277–290.
This translation by was originally published as Gustave de Molinari, The Production of Security, tr. J. Huston McCulloch, Occasional Papers Series #2, Richard M. Ebeling, ed. (New York: The Center for Libertarian Studies, May 1977).
This edition published as Gustave de Molinari, The Production of Security, tr. J. Huston McCulloch (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009; orig. 1849).
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The Production of Security
Gustave de Molinari
Translation by J. Huston McCulloch
This essay was originally published as "De la production de la sécurité," in Journal des Economistes (February 1849): 277–90.
This translation by was originally published as Gustave de Molinari, The Production of Security, trans. J. Huston McCulloch, Occasional Papers Series #2, Richard M. Ebeling, ed. (New York: The Center for Libertarian Studies, May 1977).
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The interests of the consumer of any commodity whatsoever should always prevail over the interests of the producer.
— Gustave de Molinari
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