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 to be in bondage to evil. By causing others unhappiness, or by being indifferent to their rights or welfare, no one can be happy, though he possess mountains of diamonds and oceans of gold.

In the words of the noble Pestalozzi, "There is no rest for him who oppresses and persecutes. Nay, there can be no repose for him; for the sighs of the unfortunate ascend as swift witnesses before the living God."

The monopoly of houses and lands, and of money, that represents them, is a source of gigantic oppressions, and utterly at war with that 'righteousness' which is said, 'alone to exalt a nation.'

"Let me go up to the judgment on the side of the oppressed, rather than on the side of the oppressor."