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The greater part of it was laid upon the country; and of what was laid upon the towns, the greater part was assessed upon the houses. Whatever inequalities, therefore, there might be in the original assessment, gave little disturbance.
Some of them stood erect, others crouched, while a few sprawled flat and crawled for short distances before rising and moving on. From her point of vantage it seemed that those round the buildings must see them as clearly as she did herself; but she knew they were keeping well out of sight, taking advantage of every concealing wave of ground and all inequalities of surface.
Thus when he contemplates the inequalities of men's economic powers, these appear to him alternately in two different forms as genuine powers of production and as powers of mere seizure without his discerning where in actual life the operation of the one ends and the operation of the other begins: and, though for a certain special purpose he admits, as we shall see presently, that some able men are able in the sense of being exceptionally productive, his thoughts and his feelings alike through the larger part of his argument are dominated by the idea that ability is merely acquisitive.
The Krita age, the 'age of truth, the reign of purity, in which mankind, as it came forth from the Creator, was not divided into numerous conflicting orders, and in which the different faculties of man all worked harmoniously together, was a thought that lay too near the human heart to be uprooted by the ills and inequalities of actual life.
Whenever the inequalities of the ground forced us out of our track, I would again turn to this little star, and consult its unfailing index. There it twinkled in the blue heavens like the eye of a friend. It was the finger of God pointing us onward.
"I am not sure there always must be inequalities in the world," answered the minister. "There always have been," cried Annie. "There always had been slavery, up to a certain time," he replied. "Oh, but surely you don't compare the two!" Annie pleaded with what she really regarded as a kind of lunacy in the good man.
The meaning of these various conditions in the city the meaning of these sins, and sorrows, and inequalities the meaning of this tide of life itself that rolls in endless succession through these stony arteries does it perplex you? Accept, then, the help which religion gives by interpreting it as only preliminary and transitional; only a portion of a wider scheme.
Once I was in, however, the old magic and mystery returned in full flood, when I discovered that the inequalities of the towel-horse caused the bath to rock, slightly, indeed, but easily and incessantly. A few minutes of this delightful motion, and one was fairly launched. So those women below didn't want us? Well, there were other women, and other places, that did.
'Than ten fire-kings could swallow, scorching with his burning words, which an inimitable carelessness made doubly effective, the willful absurdities of government and the palpable wrongs of society, to question which had seemed before almost a heresy. But Lowell's humor was the chrism, snatching together parallels whose apparent inequalities, yet real justice, were powerfully convincing.
Thus, through exchange of services, the inequalities of Nature neutralize each other, talents associate, and forces balance. Violence and inertia are found only among the poor and the aristocratic. And in that lies the philosophy of political economy, the mystery of human brotherhood. Hic est sapientia. Let us pass from the hypothetical state of pure Nature into civilization.
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