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Berens, Lewis Henry

"The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer"


The pamphlet concludes with the following quaint and yet philosophic
lines, with which our notice of it may also fittingly close:
"Here is the Righteous Law, Man wilt thou it maintain?
It may be, as hath still, in the World been slain.
Truth appears in Light, Falsehood rules in Power;
To see these things to be, is cause of grief each hour.
Knowledge, Why didst thou come, to wound and not to cure?
I sent not for thee, thou didst me inlure.
Where knowledge does increase, there sorrows multiply,
To see the great deceit which in the World doth lie.
Man saying one thing now, unsaying it anon,
Breaking all Engagements, when deeds for him are done.
O Power where art thou? thou must mend things amiss;
Come, change the heart of Man, and make him Truth to kiss:
O Death, where art thou? wilt thou not tidings send?
I fear thee not, thou art my loving friend.
Come take this body, and scatter it in the Four,
That I may dwell in One, and rest in peace once more."


CHAPTER XVII
CONCLUDING REMARKS
"While God gave to man a capacity to labour, He also gave him a
right to the object (the earth) on which that labour must be
employed to produce the necessaries of life. This gift of God is to
all men alike. No compact or consent or legislation on the part of
one portion of the community, can ever justly deprive another
portion of the community of their right of their share of the
earth, and of its natural productions.


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