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	<description>From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small</description>
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		<title>License to the Strong</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bestowing upon men equality of rights, Fitzhugh argues, is but giving license to the strong to oppress the weak: It begets the grossest inequalities of condition. Menials and day laborers are and must be as numerous as in a land of slavery. And these menials and laborers are only taken care of while young, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>New Things Under the Sun</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty and equality are new things under the sun, Fitzhugh reminds us — writing from the antebellum South: The free states of antiquity abounded with slaves. The feudal system that supplanted Roman institutionally changed the form of slavery, but brought with it neither liberty nor equality. France and the Northern States of our Union have [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Slave Trade</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a strong proponent of paternalistic slavery, Fitzhugh argues against the slave trade: From several quarters propositions have of late been made for the revival of the African slave trade. The South has generally been opposed to this trade, the North favorable to it. Such is likely to be the case again; for the North [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Revolutions Always Harm</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reformations always do good, Fitzhugh says, but revolutions always harm: All old institutions in time become incrusted with error and abuse, and frequent reforms are required to keep them in good working order, and to adapt them to the gradually changing circumstances of mankind. This is equally true of religious institutions as of political ones, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Trade Prevents the Growth of Civilization</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fitzhugh finds the standard arguments for free trade as false as they are specious: The usual and familiar arguments in favor of this policy are, that it is cheaper to buy abroad good manufactured articles in exchange for agricultural products, than to buy them at home, where more indifferent articles would be obtained for a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Usury</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing has more perplexed political economists and mankind at large, Fitzhugh says, than the subject of usury: That it was right, proper, and laudable for every man to get the highest market price for the use of his money, as for the use of every other article, was an obvious deduction from the axioms of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Instinct and Common Sense</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Instinct and common sense deny the economic proposition that a nation gains nothing by selling more than it buys, Fitzhugh says: They say, that the way for individuals or people to get rich is to sell more than buy. Philosophy beats them all hollow in argument, yet instinct and common sense are right and philosophy [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Government without Religion</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2013/04/government-without-religion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the Constitution, there is scarcely a state that would permit any gross violations of Christian morality, Fitzhugh says — again, writing in 1854: Mormons and Oneida Perfectionists would no sooner be tolerated in Virginia than Pyrrhic Dances and human sacrifices to Moloch. Even Catholics would not be permitted to enact a Parisian sabbath, or [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Slavery Without Domestic Affection</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slavery without domestic affection would be a curse, Fitzhugh says — and so would marriage and parental authority: Historians and philosophers, speculating upon the origin of governments, have generally agreed that the family was its first development. It has ever been, and will ever be, its most common form. Two-thirds of mankind, the women and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s called a town</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2013/04/its-called-a-town/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Fitzhugh compares a southern plantation to a socialist commune, it reminds me of South Park&#8216;s &#8220;Die Hippie, Die&#8221; episode:]]></description>
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