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For on the Ideal hangs the whole question. Here at last we come back to the root of national life. What the ideal cherished by the people at large is, that the nation will soon become. Each individual man is not always sure to realise the state of life that he has in his mind, but in the nation it is soon realised and if the current idea of individuals is to get as much and give as little as they can, to be debtors of society and alms-receivers of the labor of others, then you have the spectacle Of a nation, as England to-day, rushing on to bankruptcy and ruin, saddled with a huge national debt, and converted into one gigantic workhouse and idle shareholders' asylum. (imagine a lot of people on an island-all endeavoring to eat other people's dinners, but taking precious care not to provide any of their own and you will have a picture of what the well-to - do on this island succeed in doing, and a lot of people not well to-do are trying to arrive at.)
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For on the Ideal hangs the whole question. Here at last we come back to the root of national life. What the ideal cherished by the people at large is, that the nation will soon become. Each individual man is not always sure to realise the state of life that he has in his mind, but in the nation it is soon realised and if the current idea of individuals is to get as much and give as little as they can, to be debtors of society and alms-receivers of the labor of others, then you have the spectacle Of a nation, as England to-day, rushing on to bankruptcy and ruin, saddled with a huge national debt, and converted into one gigantic workhouse and idle shareholders' asylum. (imagine a lot of people on an island-all endeavoring to eat other people's dinners, but taking precious care not to provide any of their own and you will have a picture of what the well-to - do on this island succeed in doing, and a lot of people not well to-do are trying to arrive at.)
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