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Do they not make all the scientific discoveries and mechanical inventions, by which all wealth is created?
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Do they not make all the scientific discoveries and mechanical inventions, by which all wealth is created?”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner asserts that all wealth is generated through human ingenuity and labor.
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In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.
On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.
They do not attempt to deceive us, or mislead us, or reconcile us to their doings, by any such pretences, impostures, or insults as these.
They do not tell us that we are the freest and happiest people on earth, inasmuch as each of our male adults is allowed one voice in ten millions in the choice of the men, who are to rob, enslave, and murder us.