The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest / The writings of philosophers, poets, novelists, social reformers, and others who have voiced the struggle against social injustice; selected from twenty-five languages; covering a period of five thousand years

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Past and Present

By Thomas Carlyle

(See pages [31], [74], [133])

What is it, if you pierce through his Cants, his oft-repeated Hearsays, what he calls his Worships and so forth,—what is it that the modern English soul does, in very truth, dread infinitely, and contemplate with entire despair? What is his Hell, after all these reputable, oft-repeated Hearsays, what is it? With hesitation, with astonishment, I pronounce it to be: The terror of “Not succeeding”; of not making money, fame, or some other figure in the world,—chiefly of not making money! Is not that a somewhat singular Hell?

MAMMON

GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS

(English painter, member of the Royal Academy, 1817-1904)

MARRIAGE À LA MODE

WILLIAM HOGARTH

(Old English artist, 1697-1764.

Famous painting, representing an alliance between the son of a broken-down old nobleman and the daughter of a rich city merchant)