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 children will be taught to curse you. The infant being molded in the womb will have breathed into its starved body the vitality of hate. It is not they—it is you who are blind Samsons pulling down the pillars of the social order. You are sounding the death-knell of autocracy in industry. There was autocracy in political life, and it was superseded by democracy. So surely will democratic power wrest from you the control of industry. The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you. Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body. Be warned ere it is too late.

God and the Strong Ones

(Contemporary American poet)

"We have made them fools and weak!" said the Strong Ones: "We have bound them, they are dumb and deaf and blind; We have crushed them in our hands like a heap of crumbling sands, We have left them naught to seek or find: They are quiet at our feet!" said the Strong Ones; "We have made them one with wood and stone and clod; Serf and laborer and woman, they are less than wise or human!" ''"I shall raise the weak!" saith God.''