Rattling the Chains 



the more artificial our mode of living; 

 the more man-made laws we substitute 

 for Nature's, the more grief appar- 

 ently overtakes us. The whole scheme 

 being in many respects a departure 

 from the fundamental laws of our be- 

 ing, naturally an unfailing harvest of 

 disappointment is gathered through- 

 out the earth. If under the established 

 standards and conventions it requires 

 four million different statutes, ordi- 

 nances, courts, jails, asylums, police- 

 men, poor farms, tax-gatherers, navy 

 yards and training camps to enforce 

 our man-made mandates, have we not 

 reached the point where the sooner 

 we are wiped off the planet the better? 

 To the end that such honest, simple- 

 minded people as the squirrels, pigeons 

 and grass-roots may succeed to the 

 Wilhelmstrasse, the Avenue du Bois, 

 Trafalgar Square, Broadway, the Stock 

 Yards and the Senate. 



You may infer from this that I am 

 somewhat of a rebel. Well, perhaps I 

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