The Project Gutenberg EBook of Equality, by Charles Dudley WarnerThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: EqualityAuthor: Charles Dudley WarnerRelease Date: August 22, 2006 [EBook #3118]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EQUALITY ***Produced by David Widger"EQUALITY"By Charles Dudley WarnerIn accordance with the advice of Diogenes of Apollonia in the beginning of his treatise on Natural Philosophy—"Itappears to me to be well for every one who commences any sort of philosophical treatise to lay down some undeniableprinciple to start with"—we offer this:All men are created unequal.It would be a most interesting study to trace the growth in the world of the doctrine of "equality." That is not the purpose ofthis essay, any further than is necessary for definition. We use the term in its popular sense, in the meaning, somewhatvague, it is true, which it has had since the middle of the eighteenth century. In the popular apprehension it is apt to beconfounded with uniformity; and this not without reason, since in many applications of the theory the tendency is toproduce likeness or uniformity. Nature, with equal laws, tends always to diversity; and doubtless the just notion of equalityin human affairs consists with unlikeness ...
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