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The Twentieth Century Epic

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The poet delivers a wide-ranging, didactic critique of modern society, arguing that centralization, expanding public systems, and proliferating laws concentrate power and weaken individual liberty. He targets taxation schemes, legal technicalities, political corruption, and cultural institutions for contributing to economic strain and moral decline, warning that unchecked bureaucratic growth risks social unrest. Rather than retribution, he urges rehabilitation for offenders, lower pay for officeholders to curb graft, and a return to limited government grounded in natural law, civic responsibility, and practical ethics. Occasional digressions consider art, science, and war as contexts for these moral and political prescriptions.

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Title: The Twentieth Century Epic

Author: Reuben Brodie Garnett

Release date: October 24, 2020 [eBook #63542]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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R. B. Garnett.



The TWENTIETH
CENTURY
EPIC

By R. B. Garnett

THE ROXBURGH PUBLISHING CO., INC.
Boston


Copyrighted 1914

By REUBEN BRODIE GARNETT

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